Patent ID: 7254944

Claim:
A system comprising: a renewable power production facility; a wellbore of a non-producing hydrocarbon well providing fluid access to a subterranean zone, the wellbore having a gas inlet port and a gas outlet port; a compressor powered by the output of the renewable power production facility and disposed in fluid communication with the gas inlet port of the wellbore, the compressor adapted to compress and transfer atmospheric gases through the wellbore and into the subterranean zone; a gas heater situated in a processing zone, disposed in fluid communication with the gas outlet port of the wellbore and adapted to heat gases transferred from the subterranean zone; an electric power production device, drivable by the energy of heated gases from the subterranean zone; and a gas processor adapted to remove hydrocarbons from pressurized gases transferred from the subterranean zone, the processor having an inlet port in fluid communication with the gas outlet port of the wellbore, and an outlet port in fluid communication with the gas heater.