Geothermal energy is one research option for the proposed British Geological Survey (BGS) centre near Elton.BGS director of science and technology Professor Mike Stephenson enthuses about the planned Cheshire Energy Research Field Site at Ince Marshes investigating this sphere.
He told The Chronicle at a recent residents’ consultation session at Elton: “There’s warm water everywhere and no-one has really looked into it. One of the things we would like to do is find out how warm the water is and when you take it out, how fast it gets warm again because this could actually be non-renewable, weirdly enough. You suck the heat out too fast, it’s gone, you’ve mined it, it’s mining heat.”
