Full Steam Ahead on Geothermal Energy
By jmara
Thursday, November 1st, 2007 at 3:38 pm in General.
Geothermal energy, which generates electricity from steam, is gathering force in California, with a potential 3,000 megawatts of additional energy for the state. (One megawatt is enough to supply electricity for 750 California homes under normal conditions.) Example: Santa Rosa-based ThermaSource LLC, a geothermal drilling, engineering and consulting company, has raised $42.5 million and expanded from four to 160 employees in the last year and a half.
The company was founded in 1980 by Louis Capuano, who had worked at the country’s largest single-site geothermal energy farm, The Geysers, among other places.
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November 19th, 2007 at 7:42 am
Great blog. I’ve been reading you for a while and am just now commenting. I came across this article on Geothermal Energy. It gives some great info on this renewable resource. I hope you and your readers will find it useful. THanks -Heather Douglas.
Here is the link:
http://www.whiskeyandgunpowder.com/Report/geothermalenergy.html
December 10th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Nice Blog on renewable energy resource.
http://www.mrsolarenergy.com
April 1st, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Geothermal Energy has a bright future but seems to be ignored by our leaders.
It is virtually Unlimited! It must be cheap to run, once the hole is drilled. Maintenance is costly but needs to be done months apart.
It has an advantage that is never mentioned:
In theory, it will cool the earth. Yes, the heat ends up in the air where it is radiated to outer space.
I went to a meeting at Livermore, where they have the most powerful “solid” lasers. These lasers use special solids to amplify laser power.
Could something like that be used to dig a hole in the ground? Yes, the dust would block it.
Not if the beam is lowered down the hole and the in final part, the beam is enclosed in a pipe purged by gas transparent at the laser beam frequency.
Many, many details remain to be studied and resolved, i.e., research is needed, i.e., it may be impractical.
Since Livermore is, allegedly looking for that kind of work, I suggested them, to look into this too.