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"Our field results, combined with further numerical modeling, find that the process can sustain a thermal storage efficiency of 82%," civil and environmental engineering professor Tugce Baser said.

Civil and environmental engineering professor Tugce Baser led the first field demonstration of subsurface geothermal energy storage utilizing an abandoned oil and gas well in the Illinois Basin.