Show Student Life Friday December 2 1977 Page 3 Geothermal energy 0f possible use in areas of Utah some tuns Flannery uts jormation Serv John In the (Then Wasath Moun-i- s m into spring quantitus vui faulted arias m (earth in 1 down this water works rock aid trough porous makis rkmatmb yt luto itthed yyith hot magma It "ontact s muons th 'jidreds of degrees upward to tin in va 4e emerging or g y s i s a hot springs t itah these s'l s i ur'li s Mir spi ts ins j o in V the this stall t'11 MlsslsslJ j trelil assistant Dipartment b uider how n I owi r temperature geother- tnmv tan be used for drying lumber for heating soil and produt mg an i tended grow mg stason or looting erten houses Most of the springs in Box ldi r Davis Webtr Salt I akt tins mil L tah i ountn s f ill in at gi i v mal F Small m alt r t' Id best powtu m s in s U t of tions an in if ill Itah t ti thtrinnl probabh mori tr n h t’ m U minimal ust are other applii a lower temperature geothermal enegy Having water at a high temperaturi means that less energy is requited to bring it to a temperature where it may be used m turbines to gt titrate But there oLites m meltwater p from the to be used for power gen- eration t t to m this Most of n i ut ot1 Knit e t i si alt m d sir tl ink ng h is h Mu small r fi t Is ( a'lv is n It r w Dt vt b pint us Kolsai has Peter T jteb what has ippt m d me in the ust of hot spots t r nut 1 if did can point to jicessful appluati ii if s pent energy In htvkjmk eland for example most sp n t ti t wdtr hea’int is dont wi'ti t' from tin tin i In gr "ergng 5 tunid New 7ei! m id' water from st t r it u 11 is semai stINtr used to sue heat toil as and it h 1 a'ls resident t s in about gt apartments tv at Heating bills at Or-tInstitute of It thnol n wtre leid to a minimal am unt using a tre has 4u8 a dozen aeothemal design Even Idaho use of closer to I t h H use is actively aialwing the geothermal ht at f r public buildings What Water about uses in L temperature ant Kolesar sat s the Milford area is with sufficiently tah is import- t tins turn tlu only one high lunpera uni r HID the Htseartli and Still I nt rgv I ge ik i e d it of b tn I 1 Diiblic buildings Closertohome Kla' n t as spas has mu fjnal lmti d i osts and main t narn e costs art high and g m tlit i mat souks are oft n gun iv t b t n bit s I be sou' t s kii wn to shut off or t p our from d posits of the lissolvtd matt riil tail it bs the hot watt r I ht n tlu it is tlu situation wht re the ht it is available un dt i r tmnd but tlv r t is no vt att r flow and then fre no wav of i trit v mg tht t rv rgv the spimts Hot Spots h y Ftdeial Downtown development iHvtlop-min- t is intt rt stt ti tivl some money has bt en made availablt to the state for testing springs and measuring water flows A Itah State University gradauti student geothermal Kolesar t t nergv exists feels 1 Jim Kohler will shortly begin work m the Ht Ixm area to see if potential for that Utah on geotherIt should b ton ouliin t rely solelv shops in the new center at 55 shopping mporiuin Mam opened ret entlv Ice t earn frozen voggurt Many of the 22 I iffles hair styling posters ints santlwuhes western war outdoors supplies theese and u pi dinners are some of the things offered in the new center We always knew downtown IOgan would never die and that is wh we built the Emporium” saitl Von Stocking one of the dev elopers mal t nergv sidered a supplementary energy source worth investigating and worth thinking about if for no other reason than redut mg demand on fossil fuel resources S ‘ All owners tenants and finan-cer- The building employs a heat pump that recirculates leftover heat and is solar adaptable Stocking said in an effort to conserve energy VMVS ARRIVAL by holicoptor ®CHE bqLLEYMML at 11:00 am S VTl RDA Y AOV 10th music by Iligli Jass Baud Loau I ASTAAT COLOR pleture Savailable irltli VT 1 a ltd ret eaudy eaites! tall irifh SA AT V on Saturday Aoreinber 19tli u ®re is how WaSOtch J! geothermal enerqy evolves Ram and sno on the umiuii dK into fissures and Imaely reaches hot rock formations next to the earth s ogma The Neater returns to the earth s surface heated as os several hundred degrees ILL BE IH(K AT TIIE II LEE E Eltl) V V LFTEB TIIAAKSfIVliXi SWTt M s are local” he said |