Geothermal research leads to promising discovery (Hydrogen Fuel News)
Scientists have developed a method for taking a geothermal reservoir’s temperature.
Geothermal research conducted by Berkley lab scientists has lead to the discovery of a “new” way to take the temperature of deep geothermal reservoirs, which is welcome and positive news for scientists who often find it difficult to estimate the temperature of these reservoirs, especially since gauging the temperature is a key step in determining whether a site should be further explored as a clean renewable energy source.
The new method is based on an old technique.
The process for taking the temperature isn’t exactly new. It is actually a 20 year old technique called solute geothermometry, which has undergone a high-tech transformation. More specifically, the new method involves a computer program known as GeoT that measures a deep reservoir’s temperature. It does this first with the concentrations of dissolved salts from a fluid sample that is attained at the surface, for instance, a hot spring. Read More....
