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DOE Calls on University of Nevada, Reno Expertise in Geology and Geothermal for Project (CarsonNow.org)

Director of the Nevada Bureau of Nevada Mines and
Geology Jim Faulds talks about mapping geothermal
resources with students.

Researchers from the University of Nevada, Reno are poised to play a key role in a project that holds the potential to unlock massive new resources of power generated from geothermal sources.

The project dubbed “FORGE” is short for Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy and seeks to dramatically widen the number of potential locations where power could be produced from geothermal resources. University professors Jim Faulds and Wendy Calvin, also GRC Members, among the world’s leaders in the understanding of geothermal systems, are providing their expertise to the project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Researchers from the University will provide geologic modeling of two potential FORGE sites — one near Fallon, Nevada and a second near Coso, California. This geologic modeling is critically important to the FORGE project, Faulds, director of the University’s Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, explained. “The feasibility studies will help determine where best to establish the FORGE project.”

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