A powerful exercise project in Iceland , named " Thor " after the god of thunder , has attain the impressive depth of 4.659 kilometers ( 2.89 miles ) in a cutting edge approach to getting clean geothermal zip . The project is expected to generate up to 10 multiplication more vigor than conventional method acting by drilling into a volcano in the Reykjanes area .
The oil production was completed on January 25 of this class , and now the squad behind Thor has two years to establish feasibleness and the cost of this facility . The experiment is officially recognize as theIcelandic Deep Drilling Project , get in August last year . It take advantage of the incredibly high temperature and pressure that urine is subject to at those profundity .
Thermometers at those depths well reach 427 ° C ( 800 ° F ) and the press is above two hundred atmospheres . The unique conditions find down there allow the water supply to be a supercritical fluid , something that ’s neither gas nor liquidness . It is a curious in - between that behaves as both , effuse through solid objects and still break up substances like a liquid .
Most power place make electricity through the movement of turbine , andsupercritical water system reactorsare a well - test upcoming technology that could produce more electricity than conventional 1 .
" We expect to get five to 10 times more power from the well than a ceremonious well today , " Albert Albertsson , an engineer at the Icelandic Energy Department company HS Orka , need in the oil production project , toldAFP .
To power a average - sized city like Reykjavik and provide blistering water for its 212,000 inhabitants would require between 30 and 35 conventional high - temperature wells . But the team estimates that between three and five supercritical wells could get the same chore done .
Republic of Iceland is presently the only country in the worldly concern with 100 pct renewable electrical energy , with geothermal energy accounting for 25 per centum of their output . While this is an incredible result , booming industry , car , and touristry produce a huge amount of CO2and Iceland still might not make the Paris Climate Agreement prey .
[ H / T : AFP ]
