Drilling into the geothermal future: the Landmark Success of the First Deep Deviated Well

The success story of drilling the first deep deviated well at the Utah FORGE site in winter of 2021. Presented by Dr. Joseph Moore (PI) and Dr. John McLennan (Co-PI).

[Napstone]

This is a very interesting project ...
Studying the feasibility of reservoir thermal variant wells was my capstone thesis project in 2011 for graduating as a mechanical engineer from The University of Manitoba
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What was the expected output in MW of this project?
I'm very interested in bringing this to Africa, amongst a few others. If you guys are taking on strategic partners and funding, I'm very interested in discussing.
Pls kindly let me know and we can set up a zoom call

[randyheinig]

How far apart are the two wells (at the bottom)? And as you push water through the cracks to the extraction well, what is the efficiency on that? Are there concerns that eventually the efficiency will reduce (given that the two wells aren't connected) and the second well will stop picking up the warmed liquid?

[flutieflambert]

What are the environmental effects and/or risks of fracturing solid rock with water? Is there risk of inducing earthquakes? Have there been any studies done to assess that or any other potential environmental risks involved with this type of drilling?

[bobmayo]

How far apart will the wellbores in the reservoir be?

[haught]

I have a question, is it predicted that there will be a lot of geo>electricity or more geo heat used directly for industrial processes/residential use? I know for CSP the conversion cost ends ups eroding any advantage it gets over PV, seems like a similar thing could happen here, though I am sure there is more to it. Excited to see this tech advancing

[davidolson]

Closed loop geothermal will beat permeability geothermal anywhere.

[JAGFG]

Couldn’t they just drill deeper and use a closed loop system, I hate that they used a fracking approach.

[richardservatius]

long ago the military set off nukes underground...which would have fractured the nearby rock and melted a lot of it. i imagine that the cavern formed of melted rock would be cracked by now or
could be cracked with smaller explosives. the radiation will probably last for thousands of years, but does that matter for a geothermal plant that won't be on the surface or used for humans
except for the heat??? Nevada had several of these bomb sites and at least one in Alaska.

[jaxtelford]

So, like fracking, fluid is being pumped into the ground. Hydrolic fracturing takes place, so fluid will be pumped into the strata, just like fracking. Settling will take place, tremors will happen... no harm eh?