An apparatus and method for enhancing the flow of geothermal fluid from at
least one injection well to at least one production well, which comprises
a first horizontal geothermal well, which is used as the injection well,
and into which water is injected; a second horizontal, geothermal well,
which is used s the production well and from which geothermal fluid
issues, wherein the second, horizontal, production, geothermal well is
substantially horizontally and vertically spaced from the first,
horizontal, injection, geothermal well and located at a shallower depth
than the first, horizontal, injection, geothermal well; and the apparatus
form producing a pressure difference between the first horizontal,
injection well and the second horizontal, production well and utilizing
the water density difference induced by the temperature difference.
Preferably, binary geothermal power plants or combined cycle geothermal
power plants can be used to produce power from geothermal fluid recovered
from the production well.