If the application is available on the ERCB website I'll need to give it a look. It sounds simple but I am intrigued by the drilling and wellbore design portion of the system. My background is in drilling so I am curious as to how they actually intend to drill multiple lateral sections from a single vertical wellbore. That is technically feasible but pretty expensive to do unless they are doing something new.
Regarding concern about large scale geothermal projects I don't see a major issue with them. Even on a large scale the amount of energy we would be removing in the form of heat is pretty minuscule in the overall temperature profile of the planet. This heat is naturally being generated regardless of what happens and will not speed up or decline due to any geothermal system removing a small portion of it.
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