Daily Telegraph
Wednesday 1/7/2009 Page: 16
DRILLING started for Australia's first "hot rocks" commercial energy project yesterday. The plan is to drill 4km below the earth's surface at Paralana in far northern South Australia to gain access to superheated rocks. The consortium headed by Adelaide's Petratherm will create an underground heat exchanger capable of circulating water of more than 2000C. By 2011 the consortium expects to be supplying geothermal energy on a commercial basis and by 2013 to be powering homes and businesses on a much larger scale.
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