GETTING GIGATON SCALE CLEAN ENERGY FROM THE GROUND
Our Dynamical Geothermal System (DGS) is an integrated well and reservoir production method that superheats water by diverting and flowing it across vast areas of hot and superhot subsurface rock, then returning the fluids to the well. DGS is a double fluid flow diversion arrangement having barrier-guides placed both in the well and within very large, engineered reservoirs, causing substantial travel and heat transfer (see illustration). Targeted operating parameters include accessing more than 60,000,000 square feet of rock surface area located in temperatures ranging from 300oF to over 700oF. These levels enable production of gross 50 MW electricity most anywhere in the world. Ultimate production and depth capabilities are unlimited, but the current capabilities are 600oF with a gross 35 MW.
NON-CONTROVERSIAL AND NON-CONTRADICTORY CLEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
DGS resolves all the limitations of old and newly proposed geothermal practices. The company’s solution resolves the shortcomings in part with technology and in part through more sensible approaches.
To start, most all subsurface energy development, but especially geothermal, seeks resources held in the shallowest, most cheaply accessed locations possible. More, development also often seeks the most elusive combination of prolific geologic permeability and natural water sources. Due also to rock weathering and low overburden weight, these shallower, less stable conditions also lead to costly drilling problems and exploration failures.
A more sensible approach takes all opposite paths. Instead of shallow, permeable, and unstable conditions, DGS seeks hotter, less permeable, and more reliable geology by going deeper. At greater depths, plentifully abundant resources are found underneath or adjacent to the traditionally difficult or risky locations. Such abundance and reliability underlies much of the planet’s surface.
In addition to supplying greater heat, development in so-called basement geology solves three other long plaguing problems for geothermal: exploratory risk, untenable water losses, and earthquake potential: (1) In terms of exploration, traditional geothermal resources are found under approximately 0.15% of earth. The new extraction technology targets the 99+% remainder. (2) Then, excessive production water losses occur through natural fractures and other permeability. This issue is resolved by DGS not being constrained by such conditions and by the weight of miles of overlying rock causing closure pressure, preventing void creation. (3) Although extremely rare conventionally, earthquake potential is effectively eliminated, also by the closure pressure occurring at depth, thus disconnecting the DGS system from fracture pathways that might otherwise hydraulically communicate rock slippage.
A broader issue concerning most renewables is land usage, often requiring 10X more than other energy sources. A complete net 100 MW DGS facility may be installed on 10 acres or fewer .
THE NEW GEOTHERMAL CLASS -- THE FIRST GLOBALLY SCALABLE GEOTHERMAL
There is no shortage of ultra deep rock melting drilling processes, adaptable oil and gas products, AI, fiber optics, and other efforts coming into the industry. Each tactic might contribute to energy incrementally, but incremental improvements are neither economically compelling nor scalable against global climate problems. Magical drilling does not make energy. Cheaper drilling does not make energy. Digitization does not make energy. Only heat and massive “skillet” area makes scalable geothermal energy.
The chief reason for burgeoning incrementalism is a lack of heat exchanging reservoir. The critical nature of efficient reservoir performance is shown by way of example in DTS's modeling of a 40,000’ – 50,000’ deep SCF type well into 1000oF rock. This well construction is currently infeasible. Despite the incredible temperature, producing such a well as a simple loop would generate only a few MW’s, a level not remotely economic. There are a few reasons for such low output, but the principal cause is the lack of reservoir. However, even if a traditional type geothermal reservoir were present, its fluids will hydraulically “short-circuit” when circulated, severely limiting heat transfer. "Short-circuiting" means that when water is passed through a reservoir, it simply finds the path of least resistance, exiting before fully heated, and prematurely cooling the shortcut. Even in 1000oF rock, inefficient, unguided flow may recover only 10% or even less of available energy.
THE NEW GEOTHERMAL CLASS -- THE FIRST GLOBALLY SCALABLE GEOTHERMAL
DGS is “Full Hydraulic Circuit Geothermal,” a new geothermal category. The technology’s layout and its diverting features installed in the reservoir direct flow through a system of lengthy, narrow, guided channels. This guidance enables contacting, collecting, and producing between 90% to 100% of the available energy.
Geothermal production is re-defined as its reservoir effectiveness. It is on this basis of the control of reservoir hydraulics that geothermal can be enabled for global scale energy and the global climate fight.
GEOTHERMAL SOLVED, CLIMATE INITIATED.
Our Dynamical Geothermal System (DGS) is an integrated well and reservoir production method that superheats water by diverting and flowing it across vast areas of hot and superhot subsurface rock, then returning the fluids to the well. DGS is a double fluid flow diversion arrangement having barrier-guides placed both in the well and within very large, engineered reservoirs, causing substantial travel and heat transfer (see illustration). Targeted operating parameters include accessing more than 60,000,000 square feet of rock surface area located in temperatures ranging from 300oF to over 700oF. These levels enable production of gross 50 MW electricity most anywhere in the world. Ultimate production and depth capabilities are unlimited, but the current capabilities are 600oF with a gross 35 MW.
NON-CONTROVERSIAL AND NON-CONTRADICTORY CLEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
DGS resolves all the limitations of old and newly proposed geothermal practices. The company’s solution resolves the shortcomings in part with technology and in part through more sensible approaches.
To start, most all subsurface energy development, but especially geothermal, seeks resources held in the shallowest, most cheaply accessed locations possible. More, development also often seeks the most elusive combination of prolific geologic permeability and natural water sources. Due also to rock weathering and low overburden weight, these shallower, less stable conditions also lead to costly drilling problems and exploration failures.
A more sensible approach takes all opposite paths. Instead of shallow, permeable, and unstable conditions, DGS seeks hotter, less permeable, and more reliable geology by going deeper. At greater depths, plentifully abundant resources are found underneath or adjacent to the traditionally difficult or risky locations. Such abundance and reliability underlies much of the planet’s surface.
In addition to supplying greater heat, development in so-called basement geology solves three other long plaguing problems for geothermal: exploratory risk, untenable water losses, and earthquake potential: (1) In terms of exploration, traditional geothermal resources are found under approximately 0.15% of earth. The new extraction technology targets the 99+% remainder. (2) Then, excessive production water losses occur through natural fractures and other permeability. This issue is resolved by DGS not being constrained by such conditions and by the weight of miles of overlying rock causing closure pressure, preventing void creation. (3) Although extremely rare conventionally, earthquake potential is effectively eliminated, also by the closure pressure occurring at depth, thus disconnecting the DGS system from fracture pathways that might otherwise hydraulically communicate rock slippage.
A broader issue concerning most renewables is land usage, often requiring 10X more than other energy sources. A complete net 100 MW DGS facility may be installed on 10 acres or fewer .
THE NEW GEOTHERMAL CLASS -- THE FIRST GLOBALLY SCALABLE GEOTHERMAL
There is no shortage of ultra deep rock melting drilling processes, adaptable oil and gas products, AI, fiber optics, and other efforts coming into the industry. Each tactic might contribute to energy incrementally, but incremental improvements are neither economically compelling nor scalable against global climate problems. Magical drilling does not make energy. Cheaper drilling does not make energy. Digitization does not make energy. Only heat and massive “skillet” area makes scalable geothermal energy.
The chief reason for burgeoning incrementalism is a lack of heat exchanging reservoir. The critical nature of efficient reservoir performance is shown by way of example in DTS's modeling of a 40,000’ – 50,000’ deep SCF type well into 1000oF rock. This well construction is currently infeasible. Despite the incredible temperature, producing such a well as a simple loop would generate only a few MW’s, a level not remotely economic. There are a few reasons for such low output, but the principal cause is the lack of reservoir. However, even if a traditional type geothermal reservoir were present, its fluids will hydraulically “short-circuit” when circulated, severely limiting heat transfer. "Short-circuiting" means that when water is passed through a reservoir, it simply finds the path of least resistance, exiting before fully heated, and prematurely cooling the shortcut. Even in 1000oF rock, inefficient, unguided flow may recover only 10% or even less of available energy.
THE NEW GEOTHERMAL CLASS -- THE FIRST GLOBALLY SCALABLE GEOTHERMAL
DGS is “Full Hydraulic Circuit Geothermal,” a new geothermal category. The technology’s layout and its diverting features installed in the reservoir direct flow through a system of lengthy, narrow, guided channels. This guidance enables contacting, collecting, and producing between 90% to 100% of the available energy.
Geothermal production is re-defined as its reservoir effectiveness. It is on this basis of the control of reservoir hydraulics that geothermal can be enabled for global scale energy and the global climate fight.
GEOTHERMAL SOLVED, CLIMATE INITIATED.
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