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The main purpose of Mining the Earth's Heat: Hot Dry Rock Geothermal Energy is to preserve the concepts and data developed during the last 35 years, so that a new generation can build upon our efforts. Integrated into this one book is all known data available on HDR development and resources of the U.S. The book also includes relevant information on HDR projects outside of the U.S. The material is presented in a format easily grasped by any engineer, scientist, or educates layman.
Donald W. Brown was instrumental in the establishment, in 1971, of the very successful
Hot Dry Rock (HDR) Geothermal Energy Program at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
in New Mexico. He directed the early geological and geophysical reconnaissance work
in the Jemez Mountains, directed the drilling and testing program in the first deep exploratory
well, and in late 1973 selected Fenton Hill (36 km west of Los Alamos) as the Laboratory's
HDR Test Site. Don was the HDR Project Manager through the difficult period from 1983 to
1985, when the deeper (4000-m) reservoir at Fenton Hill was first created by hydraulic
stimulation and then tested as a closed-loop circulating system. He subsequently served
as the lead reservoir engineer for the HDR Project from 1992 through 1995, a time that covers
the successful flow testing of the deeper HDR reservoir at Fenton Hill.
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