Press Release August 15, 2022 University of Utah and Utah FORGE Announce Second Solicitation...
Current Activities at Utah FORGE
As part of the Energy & Geoscience Institute‘s Spring Webinar Series, Dr. Joseph Moore recently gave an overview of geothermal energy and enhanced geothermal systems.
… Enhanced geothermal systems are characterized by very low permeabilities and so the goal for EGS is to create permeabilty where none exists naturally…
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Dr. Moore gave a brief summary of the most current activities at Utah FORGE, its recent successes and challenges.
Utah FORGE is a Department of Energy funded project and all of the data is free and publicly available in the Geothermal Data Repository. Please visit our Data Dashboard to explore the various areas of datasets available.
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