Confluence Energy Project
Walker Lane Research Partners has developed a specialized machine learning model to identify areas with high geothermal and lithium resource potential. We are seeking strategic partners for the Confluence Energy Project to enhance our model and leverage our decades of geological experience to uncover and develop critical geothermal and lithium resources throughout western North America
Earth is a Heat Engine
Geothermal energy is a vast and untapped renewable energy resource. Heat, trapped in the Earth from its’ gravitational accretion escapes primarily through plate tectonics and associated processes. If properly harnessed, this energy could power civilization for millions of years
Tapping into just 0.3% of North America’s heat could power the continent indefinitely
The heat energy of the Earth is not evenly distributed, it is localized along active tectonic boundary zones. These concentrated areas of high heat flow, such as the Great Basin of western North America, are appealing targets for geothermal energy production.
Still, geothermal energy is a vastly underutilized renewable energy resource.
Why?
Thermal Resources are Extremely Difficult to Locate and Explore
Existing approaches are not yielding enough success to move the needle on geothermal energy.
Public data sources are inaccurate and do not represent the geometry of fault systems to the degree required to predict geothermal resource occurrences.
Our innovation is the design and curation of a proprietary fault zone dataset that was meticulously developed in university lab research over the course of the last decade. Recent developments in machine learning methods and infrastructure have facilitated the construction of our sophisticated geothermal and lithium resource location model which is poised to reliably locate renewable energy prospects in western North America.
