HEAT TRANSFER.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Grose, Thomas K.
- Source
- ASEE Prism; Nov/Dec2021, Vol. 31 Issue 3, p28-29, 4p
- Subject
- Heat transfer
Geothermal resources
Horizontal wells
Shale gas
Natural gas reserves
Hydraulic engineering
- Language
- ISSN
- 10568077
The article discusses how engineers repurpose the fracking techniques in gas and oil drilling. It mentions enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), in which water is shot under very high pressure through wells drilled into hot, dry rocks more than a mile below ground to fracture them and create a human-engineered aquifer. It reveals that investor and industry interest in geothermal energy is growing.