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Read the following two passages and answers the items that follow the passage. Your answers to the passages should be based on passages only The energy contained in rock within the earth’s crust represents a nearly unlimited energy source, but until recently, commercial retrieval has been limited to underground hot water and steam recovery systems. These systems have been developed in areas of recent volcanic activity, where high rates of heat flow cause visible eruption of water in the form of geysers and hot springs. In other areas, however, hot rock also exists near the surface but there is insufficient water present to produce eruptive phenomena. Thus a potential hot dry rock (HDR) reservoir exists whenever the amount of spontaneously produced geothermal fluid has been judged inadequate for existing commercial systems. As a result of the recent energy crisis, new concepts for creating HDR recovery systems - which involve drilling holes and connecting them to artificial reservoirs placed deep within the crust are being developed. In all attempts to retrieve energy from HDR’s, artificial stimulation will be required to create either sufficient permeability or bounded flow paths to facilitate the removal of heat by circulation of a fluid over the surface of the rock.The HDR resource base is generally defined to include crustal rock that is hotter than 150°C, is at depths less than ten kilometres, and can be drilled with presently available equipment. Although wells deeper than ten kilometres are technically feasible, prevailing economic factors will obviously determine the commercial feasibility of wells at such depths. Rock temperatures as low as 100°C may be useful for space heating; however, for producing electricity, temperatures greater than 200°C are desirable.The geothermal gradient, which specifically determines the depth of drilling required to reach a desired temperature, is a major factor in the recoverability of geothermal resources. Temperature gradient maps generated from oil and gas well temperature-depth records kept by the Ministry of Petroleum suggest that tappable high-temperature gradients are distributed all across India. (There are many areas, however, for which no temperature gradient records exist.)Indications are that the HDR resource base is very large. If an average geothermal temperature gradient of 22°C per kilometre of depth is used, a staggering 13,000,000 quadrillion B.T.U.’s of total energy are calculated to be contained in crustal rock to a ten kilometre depth in the India. If we conservatively estimate that only about 0.2 percent is recoverable, we find a total that is comparable to the estimated resource base of all the coal remaining in the India. The remaining problem is to balance the economics of deeper, hotter, more costly wells and shallower, cooler, less expensive wells against the value of the final product, electricity and/or heat.
Which of the following would be the most appropriate title for the passage?
Energy from Water Sources: The Feasibility of Commercial Systems
Geothermal Energy Retrieval: Volcanic Activity and Hot Dry Rocks
Energy Underground: Geothermal Sources Give Way to Fossil Fuels
Tappable Energy for India’s Future: Hot Dry Rocks
Correct answer: (4) Tappable Energy for America's Future: Hot Dry Rocks
This best summarizes that the passage concerns the potential of HDR as a valuable, tappable energy source in the US, without limiting to either just geothermal gradients or fossil fuels.
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