The Superhot Blueprint
The production phase is where superhot geothermal fully manifests its potential, bringing to life a resource so powerful that it sets a new standard for energy production.
Think of the wellbore as a thermal power transmission line. By targeting rocks at 300–500 °C, water shifts into overdrive, achieving maximum heat transfer efficiency through three remarkable properties.
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The production phase is where superhot geothermal manifests its full potential, bringing to life a resource so powerful it sets a new standard for energy production.
Think of the wellbore as a thermal power transmission line. By targeting rocks at 300–500 °C, water shifts into overdrive, achieving maximum heat transfer efficiency through three remarkable properties.
- Gas-like viscosities: to enable easy flow through the fracture network.
- Liquid-like densities: to maximize heat transport, and
- Extreme density contrasts between injectors and producers: to minimize parasitic pumping loads.
Under these conditions, each well delivers 10-100x the output of all other forms of geothermal, due to higher electric power conversion efficiencies and controlled geochemistry.
Unlike hydrothermal systems, our geochemistry is engineered, not left to chance. Within an engineered reservoir , we control water chemistry to protect the system from scaling and corrosion, sustaining decades of peak heat transfer.
Working in deeper, tighter formations also minimizes water loss, cutting replacement needs dramatically. The result: a system custom-engineered for maximum power per well.
And after production, we move to the final step: converting deep heat into Earth's most reliable electricity.