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tigious institutions. “We are plugged into the
University of Adelaide to help us postulate
our views on how we explore. One of those
people, Professor Martin Hand is now the
head of the South Australian Geothermal
Research Institute. Professor Richard Hillis
remains on our board and has been given a
role to head up a co-operative research centre
in deep drilling exploration technologies,”
says Kallis. Hillis’ role as Chief Executive Of-
ficer of the Deep Exploration Technologies
Cooperative Research Centre has lent Petra-
therm an expert who fully understands stress
regimes. They also connect through the uni-
versity’s engineering school through Helio-
Therm project. “The number one project is
the HelioTherm project,” says Kallis. He says
that at this time he is in the process of con-
sidering several solar power partners, and
that their announcement of the grant that