Show Scientists Dig Deep F For or Heat Things are looking down at Los Lob Alamos New Mexico Scientists at the Atomic Energy Commissions Commission's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Laboratory Labora Labora- tory are arc probing an nn ancient volcano known as the Jemez Caldera aldera whose titanic eruptions eruptions shaped much of northern north north- ern New Mexico's terrain Work has begun on the we western tern flank of the extinct volcano to study the extractIOn extraction extraction extrac extrac- tion of geothermal energy t Ironi trum ru m dry hot ho t rocks It is believed that by drilling down 13 kilometers I feet feel or more a region of granite at degrees centigrade degrees Fahrenheit will be encountered If so attempts will be made to hydraulically fracture the rock near the bottom of the hole Success will lead to drilling drilling drilling drill drill- ing two deeper holes this summer If the these e meet expectations expectations ex ex- pumping control and heat exchanger systems will be installed by the first half hall of 1975 Water wilt will be pumped into the fractured zone to pick up heat and circulated under pressure to bring it out and the worlds world's first experimental facility for extracting dry heat energy from deep within the earth would go into operation |