Word: petratherm
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...Eagerly watching progress are Australia's other geothermal companies. The most advanced, Petratherm, plans to drill its own well near South Australia's Flinders Ranges later this year and produce commercial amounts of power before Geodynamics does. Petratherm, with projects in Spain and interests in China, already has an agreement to supply 7.5 MW of power to the Beverley uranium mine, 11 km from its drilling site. The company won't go as deep as Geodynamics. Instead, it will try to push its water through 200°C sedimentary rock, just above the hot granites...
...issue for the industry," says Petratherm's managing director, Terry Kallis, "is to prove flow." In other words, can water be pumped out fast and hot enough to drive that turbine on the surface - and keep doing so for decades? "I'm confident Australia will be the first" to achieve this, Kallis says, because "we have the hottest rocks in the world of this type...
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