Word: steams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Intense subterranean heat turns the water to steam, which then escapes to the surface through natural fissures. The plant's owner, Pacific Gas & Electric Co., harnesses the steam to drive generator-turbines and sends the electricity 85 miles to San Francisco...
Making the prediction come true will require technological breakthroughs. Of the three different types of geothermal resources, only one can be easily tapped: the geologic formations producing steam as at The Geysers...
Subterranean reservoirs filled with superheated water or brine - not steam - are much more common, but rights to them are selling for as low as $1 an acre. Since exploration techniques are still rudimentary, the best way to get at the hot water is to drill and pray for success. Sinking a 5,000-ft. well costs about $125,000. If a driller hits, he still can be disappointed by the mixture of steam and briny water that hisses to the surface. Sometimes it is too cool to use efficiently; often it is laden with minerals and impurities that "crud...
...probably have had a better chance with the Faculty this year than it did last, because it now has a new selling point: the energy crisis. Under an early calendar, the University could virtually shut down for the month of January, thereby saving enormous amounts of heating oil and steam...
...council found there is one big problem with using the energy issue in support of an early calendar. The University's allotments of heating oil and steam are on a monthly basis, so if there were energy shortages again, the University's savings in January would not affect its February and March problems...