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Gustavo Garzon Popular answer

Dear FC: using RG platform ask for Rolando di Primio scientific papers in this interested for you theme.

Gautam Bhattacharyya

You can try the following link

https://aiche.confex.com/aiche/2013/webprogram/Paper333543.html

G. Bothun

while I regard tapping an extremely volatile energy reservoir as madness, Japan has successfully done this on a small scale:

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-21752441

Gustavo Garzon

FC Prinsloo

Thank you all for the responses.