THE WAIRAKEI GEOTHERMAL POWER STATION is again producing electricity after a stoppage lasting more than three weeks. Faults in the gas exhaust system caused the shut-down. This recently-taken photograph from Wairakei shows an expansion bend and silencer for a geothermal steam bore. Eighty boreholes have been sunk, but only a few are supplying steam for power.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29010, 26 September 1959, Page 17
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56THE WAIRAKEI GEOTHERMAL POWER STATION is again producing electricity after a stoppage lasting more than three weeks. Faults in the gas exhaust system caused the shut-down. This recently-taken photograph from Wairakei shows an expansion bend and silencer for a geothermal steam bore. Eighty boreholes have been sunk, but only a few are supplying steam for power. Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29010, 26 September 1959, Page 17
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