Producing Electricity From Natural Geothermal Steam

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 18:26:18 +0000

Producing Electricity From Natural Geothermal Steam Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 08/13/2018 - 11:26 More News October 21, 2013 Riverside, Ca

"Wilfred Elders, a professor emeritus of geology at the University of California, Riverside, convened the “International Geothermal Workshop” in Lake Arrowhead in the San Bernardino Mountains, Oct. 13-16, to discuss developing new ways to produce electrical energy from geothermal fields."

Petrology, Geochemistry, Geothermics

Geologists Get Unique and Unexpected Opportunity to Study Magma

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 17:46:03 +0000

Geologists Get Unique and Unexpected Opportunity to Study Magma Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 08/13/2018 - 10:46 More News February 16, 2011 Riverside, Ca

"Geologists drilling an exploratory geothermal well in 2009 in the Krafla volcano in Iceland encountered a problem they were simply unprepared for: magma (molten rock or lava underground) which flowed unexpectedly into the well at 2.1 kilometers (6,900 ft) depth, forcing the researchers to terminate the drilling.

“To the best of our knowledge, only one previous instance of magma flowing into a geothermal well while drilling has been documented,” said Wilfred Elders, a professor emeritus of geology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of California, Riverside, who led the research team. 'We were drilling a well that was designed to search for very deep – 4.5 kilometers (15,000 feet) – geothermal resources in the volcano. While the magma flow interrupted our project, it gave us a unique opportunity to study the magma and test a very hot geothermal system as an energy source.'"

Neotectonics And Structural Geology, Biogeography, Landscape Ecology & Conservation Biology