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摘要

Most five-year-olds in West Virginia aren't asked to ponder difficult problems in oil and gas drilling, but Brian Anderson was. His dad, a troubleshooting chemist for the fossil fuel industry, would ask him: How would you cool down a hot drill bit? How would you lift rock out of a deep hole? How would you separate oil from water? Anderson, now 33, is an assistant professor at West Virginia Universit (WVU) and a principal investigator on a $1.2 million, nationwide projec to assess what's known as "enhanced geothermal systems."