Oregon Geothermal Tapping the Earth’s Power: Industry Insights with John Lund (Blog by Arthur Smid)
The people of Klamath Falls have made direct use of geothermal heating in their homes since the early 1900s. In recent decades the City of Klamath Falls installed a downtown district heating system that provides direct heat for homes, schools, greenhouses, government and commercial buildings. The hot water is even piped under the sidewalks to melt snow. This town near the California border is home to the Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT).
“At the OIT campus,” says John Lund, former director of the school’s
Geo-Heat Center, “we put four million dollars in a deep well.” The school dug a 5,300 foot hole in the ground hoping to find steam, or at least some very, very hot water.
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