The future of energy lies within.
Supercritical Water is water that is not liquid, gas, or solid. A supercritical fluid is any substance at a temperature and pressure above the point, where distinct liquid and gas phases do not exist. It is sometimes referred to as the fourth state. Water reaches its supercritical state at 373°C and 3,190 PSI.
One of the key characteristics of supercritical water is its ability to carry up to 10 times as much energy as water at lower temperatures. That means that if you extended a single conventional geothermal well so that it could access supercritical temperatures, instead of 3MW of power you could produce 30MW of power—enough to run over 25,000 homes.
In addition to energy, supercritical temperatures are hot enough to enable flash desalination of seawater with 100% water recovery, without the ocean-killing effluent common to existing desalination processes or the carbon costs of conventional desalination. The monetary and environmental cost of fresh water can be lowered throughout the world
Beneath the
Earth’s crust
41-64,000 feet beneath the surface and deeper, is the only naturally occurring source of harvestable supercritical temperatures on Earth. Up until now, boring to these depths was technically and economically unfeasible.
Accessible
Reliable
Natural
Dr. Hans-Peter Bunge, LMU Muenchen
Imagine a
global energy network all plugged into
the same core energy.
