Cornish Company Geothermal Engineering Aiming To ‘Recycle’ Fracking Wells (CleanTechnica)
The Cornwall-based company
Geothermal Engineering is pushing forward with its very interesting idea to ‘recycle’ used and exhausted fracking (hydraulic fracturing) wells from the oil and gas industries as geothermal power sources, according to recent reports.
To be specific, Geothermal Engineering will be using old wells drilled by the fracking company Cuadrilla. As determined by a recently signed memorandum of understanding between the two companies, the Cornish company will be designing a system that could potentially deliver both shale gas and also ‘renewable’ geothermal heat.
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