Re: GP: HDR geothermal

[Doone Wyborn <dwyborn@geodynamics.com.au>]

Hi Glen,

Thank you for your interest in our company. We are listed on the main
board of the Australian Stock Exchange. Investor questions will be very
welcome. Our project is modelled on the original project run by Los
Alamos in the 1970's and the current European Hot Dry Rock project at
Soultz in France (www.soultz.net).

The site we are developing contains the hottest rocks in the world in a
non-volcanic environment at common drilling depths. We argue that some of
the major obstacles confronting hot dry rock development in volcanic
areas like western USA and Japan are overcome in our area. These
principally relate to water losses and reservoir orientation to allow
scaling up to large multi-well systems. After we complete a successful
pilot program of 3 wells generating 13MWe at $A60 per MWh, we propose
scaling up to 270MWe with a network of 37 wells drilled to 4,900m depth.
The estimated cost is A$40 per MWh or about the same as coal in
Australia.

regards

Doone Wyborn
Geodynamics Limited

At 08:12 PM 9/10/2002 -0700, Glen wrote:
> I'd be
> interested in any experience on the list regarding Hot-dry rock
> geothermal electric power. 
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> Commercialization is being attempted by this
> company:
> http://www.geodynamics.com.au/
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> As it was correctly stated in the Morton
> article "..if your going to worry about energy, then don’t lose
> sleep over oil, gas, and coal. Worry about the electric switch on the
> wall!”  
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> ~Glen
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