The Region - News from Oct. 24, 1985
An international team of scientists and engineers has begun drilling a 10,000-foot-deep hole into hot rock formations beneath the Salton Sea in an $8-million effort to exploit geothermal energy. The project on the south shore of the Imperial Valley lake is the first major research venture launched by the new Continental Scientific Drilling Program, according to UC Riverside geologist Wilfred Elders. It is financed by the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Geological Survey.
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