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Workshop Looks at Deep Geothermal Exploration (Inside UCR)

Wilfred Elders in an undated photo
(Courtesy UC Riverside)

GRC member Wilfred Elders of University of California, Riverside recently convened an international geothermal workshop to promote a collaborative initiative to develop higher enthalpy geothermal systems in the United States.

Wilfred Elders, a professor emeritus of geology at the University of California, Riverside, convened the Workshop to Promote a Collaborative Initiative to Develop Higher Enthalpy Geothermal Systems in the USA in Lake Arrowhead in the San Bernardino Mountains, Oct. 13-16, to discuss developing new ways to produce electrical energy from geothermal fields.

Some thirty scientists and engineers attended the workshop, including two scientists from New Zealand, two from Mexico, and one from each of Iceland, Italy, and Russia.

The theme of the workshop was to explore the feasibility and economic potential of increasing the power output of geothermal wells by factor of ten by drilling much deeper to reach higher pressures and temperatures.

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