PGV plans new well

[lavalava]

The hot air comes from roxanne...

[ironyak]

Originally posted by pahoated
Iceland has one site that isn't closed cycle, it is open cycle. That brine water is not injected back in the ground and is allowed to fill pools, like this one:
http://www.trendy4cast.com/wp-content/up...land-2.jpg

The geothermal plant is in the background and the resort is a result of this brine water pool. This same water is what Petricci and crew are crying hysterically is toxic poison being released on the face of the Earth. Nowhere else on this planet is there this delusion. That brine is toxic, if you drink it. It has high levels of arsenic, sulfur, other chemicals that are dangerous if you drink it in large quantities. People don't go to health spas to drink the bathing mineral water.

Given that you've been very vocal on this topic for many years, perhaps you should have the facts straight by now. The water provided by the Svartsengi geothermal station to the Blue Lagoon spa lacks heavy metals, is cycled through the spa every 40 hours, and is a mix of an unique geothermal brine with sea water and is unlike any other geothermal fluid.

http://www.bluelagoon.com/files/research...l-ecol.pdf
"Although geothermal brines are used in several places for energy production, they are usually of much higher temperature and/or salinity and often contain high concentrations of toxic compounds like heavy metals. In those cases where cooling ponds are formed they are usually saturated with salt and are therefore totally different from the Blue Lagoon.

Although many hot springs are saturated with silica. they are much lower in salt and the amount of precipitate formed is much less than in the Blue Lagoon. It therefore appears that this temperature and salinity range. the short retention time, and especially the high silica precipitation, form a unique combination which seems to be found nowhere else."

This is a well in Iceland. That is all there is to it, just a casing pipe coming out of the ground, about 8-inches diameter. Iceland is more progressive, so they have put containment domes around the well head pipe, and there is a vent there. That is just water vapor, not smoke.

This well is at Hellisheidi ~15 miles from Reykjavik and is emitting not just water vapor.

http://www.geographical.co.uk/nature/ene...ted-debate
"A recent study linked Hellisheidi’s H2S emissions with the increased incidence of asthma among the residents of greater Reykjavik, and strict new regulations established by the Icelandic government in 2010, have forced the geothermal industry to slash H2S emissions from its plants or face closure."

[Guest]

Would like to re-bump this thread in hopes someone knew the latest on the new well that has been drilled by puna geothermal. Is the new well as productive as the old faithful well that started losing production for what ever reason?. Anyone know why the old well started drying up or losing production in the first place? The drilling of this new well was definitely the quietest I can remember. So now what becomes of the old well? Does it become a re-injection well, or can it still be used for any kind of production in the future?. Thanks in advance to any good updates.

[leilanidude]

I doubt that it is in production this quickly. They have to do all kine work at the wellhead for safety reasons and install new piping from the actual plant to the well, etc., so my guess would be August if not later?

There is no way to know why the old one became less productive, but geothermal wells exhibit this kind of production loss all over the world. Twenty years is a really good one. The ground can shift way down there, the water (steam) can move to a different area, know one really knows the exact reason.

[lavalava]

Really Gypsy? You are concerned about one new well? What about the new PLANT?!?! They will need to drill several new wells...