Google and EGS – This press release from Google, Google.org invests more than $10 million in breakthrough geothermal energy technology , describes their participation in fostering a new approach: Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS). Working with two companies and SMU’s Geothermal Lab, they hope to bring EGS into full flower soon.
As I have pointed out before, you don’t have to be sitting on top of Yellowstone National Park or the volcanoes in Iceland to use geothermal. There’s a landmark geothermal project in downtown Manhattan for instance. I’ve mentioned geothermal here a number of times, including in this post from March that references the landmark M.I.T. study that puts geothermal in the forefront.
AltaRock is one of the companies with whom Google is working. They’re pioneering the approach which utilizes a heat-exchange process to deliver scads of power. Here’s a good graphic of their scheme.
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Learning how solar energy works to heat your home or to provide your pool with fresh, warm water is an important aspect. You step out into the sun and you can feel the sun’s heat. Depending on the clouds, the time of year and the time of day, that sun can feel very warm or even cold. How does solar energy work to heat your home or to provide you with hot water even on those cold days? Finding out how solar energy works in terms of solar heating is not too difficult. In fact, it is on... more
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Over the past several days as we’ve seen the death and damage from the storm in Burma/Myanmar metastasize, there has been a greater-than-usual sense of impotency on the part of the international community in its inability to rise to the challenge. There is the extraordinary scale of the disaster, and the fact that so much of the impacted area is difficult to access. There is the immediate relief effort that seems to have been thwarted by the military government there. There is the ... more
Here’s an eye-catching quote: “I believe the age of fossil fuels is coming to end - and that the age of clean energy will follow.” That’s what Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick told the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce last week. See this from the AP.
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Deanne Upson, a consultant on climate change in Washington, posed a great question at my post below on soot and solar cookers. In a nutshell, she asked how would you design an energy-efficient home for low and middle-income people in the developing world or in economically distressed areas. I thought a reply rated a post of its own.
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In my post from March 29 on the “State of the Planet ‘08” conference, sponsored by The Earth Institute and “The Economist,” I talked about a close encounter I had with the gentle Chairlady of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. We talked about nuclear power and I said, among other things, that societies needed to choose and any emphasis on nuclear power would necessarily take a tremendous amount of wind out of the sails, or turbines, as ‘twere, of the renewa... more
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