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LSU professor gets grant to study energy source

Source: Daily Report

Blaise Bourdin, an LSU math professor, has been awarded a $314,139 grant from the National Science Foundation to look at ways to use rocks and water to produce energy. Bourdin will study enhanced geothermal systems, an alternative energy source in which heat is created by circulating water through artificially stimulated fractures in rocks. He'll use LSU supercomputers and the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative to develop new models to create fractures in rocks.

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