Here’s an article on geothermal energy that makes some good points about this resource’s characteristics as a provider of baseload power. It appears that there is a factual error in the article re: cost, however; the levelized cost of energy …
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From Guest Blogger Heather: Renewable Home Energy Tips For Your New Home
There are quite a few options after moving to utilize possible renewable energy sources around your home, such as wind turbines, solar panels and more. In most cases using solar panels is the popular choice for heat, lighting and electrical …
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Bringing Geothermal Energy to Sub-Saharan Africa
I skipped last week’s Renewable Energy World North America international geothermal session, but according to what I’m reading here, the focus was on emerging markets – especially sub-Saharan Africa, where 60% of the population lives without electrical power.
U.S. Department of Interior — Assisting in Geothermal
I tend to be critical of the U.S. government’s failure to take on a leadership role in promoting renewable energy, but I forget how far we’ve come. This piece describing the U.S. Department of Interior opening up public lands for …
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The Good News: Geothermal Produces Baseload Power. The Bad News…..
This article on geothermal makes an important point: geothermal produces baseload power, just like coal or nuclear. That’s the good news. The bad news is that exploration is expensive, and its success is hard to predict. When I was listening …
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From Guest Blogger Gary Tulie: Geothermal Anywhere
Imagine it was both possible and affordable to drill down anywhere to a sufficient depth to find rock hot enough to generate high pressure steam! This is the target of a Slovak company called Geothermal Anywhere. Geothermal Anywhere uses a …
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Geothermal Power Generation — Breakthrough?
Here’s a note from Gary Tulie, a frequent commenter in the UK: Craig: I would like to let you know about an innovative company in Slovakia developing a spallation [a process in which fragments of material (spall) are ejected from …
Video on Geothermal Energy
As an ongoing part of our series in which we introduce the basics of renewable energy to young people and newcomers to the subject, here’s a short video I made recently on geothermal. Here I talk about the fundamentals, and …
Geothermal Systems and GeoExchange Systems – What’s the Difference?
PART ONE General Principles Traditional Geothermal Geothermal technology and GeoExchange technology are often confused with one another in the mind of the public. This confusion is understandable as the term ‘Geothermal’ is often applied to both technologies – even by …
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[The Vector] On Geothermal
Continued from earlier post… U.S. Geothermal Activity In 2010, the U.S. installed only 15 MW of geothermal (in Nevada) and that plant will actually have a total 25 MW capacity when finished in 2011. However, more than 500 MW of …
