| Recycling spent oil and gas wells - Having seen the | | | | Reading University in the 1980's has theoretically |
| problems disposing of the Brent Spar oil platform, | | | | proved the compatibility of the two cycles and |
| it is time to look for alternate uses for offshore | | | | has shown very large increases in efficiency and |
| platforms when it becomes uneconomical for | | | | power output, combined with reduced |
| them to continue production.One alternate use | | | | construction costs and maintenance.The theory of |
| could be the extraction of geothermal energy. | | | | operation - Special fluids operating in a hermetically |
| The continental shelf in the UK, where these | | | | sealed pipe system transfer the heat from the |
| platforms are situated, has a relatively thin earth's | | | | bottom of the well to the surface, by vaporising |
| crust, giving the wells high bottom hole | | | | and moving at near sonic velocity. This vapour |
| temperatures. Heat from these wells can be | | | | pressure is used directly to drive the turbo |
| utilised to generate electricity and, by the use of | | | | generator and is condensed, in an offshore |
| submersible cables, help power the national | | | | situation by cold seawater, before returning via |
| grid.The extraction system utilises geothermal | | | | the feed pump to the base of the well. The |
| heat transferred from a hydrothermal reservoir | | | | minimum depth of the well needed to drive turbo |
| into a combined Ultra-Large-Scale Heat Pipe/High | | | | generators depends on the geothermal gradient. |
| Speed Organic Rankine Cycle Turbine. The | | | | In some cases this could be as small as 900 |
| system, which is called GEESOR (Geothermal | | | | meters. It may be better to look at the minimum |
| Energy Extraction System Organic Rankine), | | | | bottom hole temperature: this would be in the |
| overcomes the problems of reinjection, | | | | region of 150 degrees C, although efficiency would |
| two-phase fluid movement and environmental | | | | be greatly improved with a bottom hole |
| pollution by using a clean working fluid in a closed | | | | temperature of 400 degrees C.The bottom |
| cycle. The creation of a reservoir, fracturing and | | | | 1000m of the well is normally fractured to allow |
| primary fluid movement will also be covered. The | | | | the heat from the reservoir to transfer to the |
| system describes an economical alternative to | | | | heat pipe. In a hydrothermal field, heat is |
| fossil fuels and nuclear power as the main source | | | | transferred by convection circulation over the |
| of electrical power generation for the next | | | | 1,000 metres of exposed formation. Additional |
| millennium.Governments around the world are | | | | angled drilling and hydraulic fracturing to aid this |
| constantly looking for new innovative forms of | | | | process could be utilised.The bottom 1,000 meters |
| energy. Geothermal energy has by far the | | | | of the heat pipe is either rifled or has a capillary |
| greatest potential when it's put in context with | | | | liner to increase the surface area and allow rapid |
| the reserves of all forms of energy.When one | | | | expansion of the working fluid. The working fluid is |
| looks at the planet on which people live, One see | | | | sprayed from a return tube where condensed |
| that the entire fossil fuels, i.e. coal, oil and gas, | | | | fluid is reintroduced to the evaporator surface. |
| come from the earth's crust. The crust makes up | | | | This allows the conversion of liquid to vapour to |
| only 0.4% of the total mass of the planet, the | | | | take place over a very large surface area. The |
| remaining 99.6% being hotter than 500 degrees C | | | | vaporised fluid flows up the heat pipe to the |
| within the crust, increasing to 5000 degrees C at | | | | turbine. Cooling water in the condenser provides a |
| the core.The pressures are constantly generating | | | | strong pressure differential across the turbine |
| the heat naturally. This means that geothermal | | | | thus generating maximum power. A small feed |
| energy is infinite in its nature, as it is naturally | | | | pump on the turbine shaft reinjects the working |
| renewable.Geothermal energy is natural nuclear | | | | fluid to complete the cycle.20 years ago George |
| energy - The way the planet is constructed, in | | | | Lockett known now as HealerGeorge took out a |
| the form of a number of layers or shells, means | | | | patent on this system and planned to develop the |
| that the heat can reach the surface without any | | | | idea into a working demonstration plant but the |
| trace of nuclear contamination. The radius of the | | | | fall in crude oil prices prevented this. Now crude oil |
| Earth is 6000 kilometres. This distance from the | | | | prices have almost doubled and the oil industry is |
| centre to the surface forms a natural shield and is | | | | in World decline; it is time to start to look at this |
| infinitely safer than any man made nuclear | | | | system again.Message channelled by George |
| reactor.The principles of the GEESOR - The | | | | Lockett (C) Copyright 2006, All Rights Reserved.* |
| system has been designed to extract geothermal | | | | New book * "A Journey into the Self -- the |
| energy out of spent oil and gas wells by the | | | | multi-dimensional nature of being human": |
| transfer of heat from the hydrothermal field using | | | | HealerGeorge Web Site and New BookDescription: |
| Heat Pipe technology. The heat pipe transfers | | | | What is this book going to do for YOU? For those |
| heat to the surface. The working fluid from the | | | | who are seeking a complete energetic makeover, |
| heat pipe is utilised directly in a high-speed organic | | | | as you read it you will feel a stirring and |
| rankine turbine system.The main innovation is the | | | | awakening in the depths of your heart. For those |
| combination of these two separate cycles, the | | | | who have questions about Shifts in |
| heat pipe connecting directly to the organic | | | | Consciousness, Energy Balancing and Healing within |
| rankine cycle without the need for a heat | | | | the body, you will find clear answers. |
| exchanger. Work undertaken by Dr. G. Rice of | | | | |