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Texas Town Looks to Geothermal Energy (Marlin Democrat)

Could Marlin’s historic past, which led John McGraw’s New York Giants here, somehow, someday become its economic future?

The answer is “possibly,” with enough drilling work and investment dollars.

Southern Methodist University’s Geothermal Lab is a leader in geothermal research in the U.S. And, last year, David Blackwell, W. B. Hamilton Professor of Geophysics at SMU, and Maria Richards, the SMU Geothermal Lab coordinator, released research showing that the United States potentially could generate more than 3 million megawatts of green power, or 10 times that of current coal-fired electric power plants.

And, some of that is in Texas. No, there’s no geysers bursting out of the ground, unlike Yellowstone National Park; there’s no bubbling mud pots, unlike there and places like Lassen Volcanic National Park in California.

But the city does have the water that gives it the slogan of “Mineral Water City of Texas,” that produces passive heat for Falls Community Hospital.

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