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.
Category: Geothermal
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 …
[The Vector] Geothermal and Its Potential – But What About Earthquakes?
Many experts state clearly that geothermal energy could provide all the energy the world needs. 99% of the planet has a temperature above 1,000 degrees C. The earth’s heat is an inexhaustible source of energy, available 24 hours per day …
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Talking about Renewable Energy on Statewide Nevada
I have to say that the hosts of these radio shows on which I’m a guest ask some good questions. The fellow this morning, Rodd Stowell of Statewide Nevada (syndicated to 150 stations) asked a great deal about geothermal. “This …
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