Magma Como Fuente Alterna De Energia

Magma like a alternative energy

Use magma to generate electricity is a much more ambitious (and dangerous) that the concept based onthe existing geothermal plants. After a recent preliminary study, whichwe discussed in NC & T, now come the findings focused on practical use of artificially-dugwells that reach a mass of magma located deep underground.

When in 2009 a team of scientists who drilled the ground near an Icelandic volcano,magma reached, theyhad to abandon geothermal energy experiments were planned.But this mishap could have served to finally lead to a way to exploit an alternative sourceof geothermal energy.

Geologists Peter Schiffman and Robert Zierenberg Naomi Marks, all from the Universityof California at Davis and Wilfred Elders,University of California at Riverside, recently presented results of his experiments on the possible use of the well, and the like beexcavated as a sourceof geothermal energy.

In early tests on this utility, the well of magma has steam at 400 degrees Celsius. The research team estimated that this steamcould generate up to 25 megawatts ofelectricity, enough to supply 25,000 to 30,000 homes.

This power is higher than between 5 and 8 MW producedby a typical geothermal well.

Iceland already gets about a third of its electricity, and most of its heating, from geothermal sources.

In research being undertaken in thispit of magma involves two Icelandic powercompanies, HS Orka hf and Landsvirkjun Power and scientific institutions in Iceland and the U.S.