UK geothermal project passes milestone
Assisted by a £460,000 grant from the Department of Energy and Climate Change, Newcastle University scientists have created a giant twin borehole central heating system, so the hot water can be raised up from 1,000m down, passed through a heat exchanger and then reinjected, via a second borehole, back in to the rocks 420m down.
Well hot damn. Even the backward former colonials have been doing some stuff like that but not so much. We are more addicted to coal, oil and natural gas so much so that we are filling the oceans with petroleum.
Because the water is twice as salty as seawater, it cannot be discharged into rivers. Pumping it back underground resolves an issue
Very good.
Whatever will those scientists in the land of Sir Isaac Newton think of next?
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