Showing posts with label geothermal power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geothermal power. Show all posts
Monday, April 16, 2012

Using Iceland's Volcanoes For Britain's Energy Needs

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Britain Could Be Powered By Icelandic Volcanoes -- The Telegraph Britain could become powered by Icelandic volcanoes as the government looks...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Does Geothermal Power Cause Earthquakes?

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Geothermal Hot Spots: Many hot spots sit in seismically active areas. Paul Wootton From Popular Science: A new energy method could trigger a...
Monday, February 8, 2010

Beware Of Geoengineering Using Volcanoes' Tricks

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Starving the oceans of oxygen (Image: NASA) From New Scientist: WE HACK the climate at our peril. Volcanoes spewed so much sulphate into the...
Monday, November 16, 2009

Using CO2 To Extract Geothermal Energy

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Photo: Hot air: The Soultz-sous-Fôrets geothermal plant in Alsace, France, pumps water into fractured rock to extract heat and thus generat...
Friday, October 23, 2009

'Imagineer' Touts Geothermal Energy Invention

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Photo: Karl says his portable geothermal generator can power up to 250 average U.S. homes. From The CNN: (CNN) -- Hidden under a quaint res...
Friday, October 16, 2009

Rocking On With Hot Rocks Geothermal Energy

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From NOVA: The world is getting hotter. This is because of the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, due mainly to...
Monday, September 21, 2009

The Guide to Home Geothermal Energy

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Drill and Fill: Installers thread pipe into a hole a few inches wide and over 100 feet deep. As wind and solar hog the alt-energy spotlight,...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

To Hot Rocks in Earth, Just Add Water

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Steam rises from cooling towers as U.S. Geothermal's Raft River geothermal power plant near Malta, Idaho. Researchers from the Universit...
Thursday, August 20, 2009

Geothermal Power Search Holds Promise, Threat

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From Stltoday.com: On a high ridge in the Mayacamas Mountains, a drill slowly bores into the earth to test a new way to generate electricit...
Monday, July 20, 2009

New Geothermal Heat Extraction Process To Deliver Clean Power Generation

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PNNL's introduction of a metal-organic heat carrier, or MOHC, in the biphasic fluid may help improve thermodynamic efficiency of the hea...
Monday, June 22, 2009

Iceland's Geothermal Bailout Feature

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The Kuwait of the North: Engineers at the Tyr drilling rig in Krafla’s snow-covered caldera hope to use a supercritical-water source two mil...
Sunday, March 1, 2009

Intelligent Use Of The Earth's Heat

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From E! Science News: Geothermal energy is increasingly contributing to the power supply world wide. Iceland is world-leader in expanding de...
Sunday, October 5, 2008

The Growth Of Geothermal Power

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Wairakei Geothermal Power Plant New Zealand ( Photo: Wikimedia ) Filipinos Draw Power From Buried Heat -- Washington Post ORMOC, Philippines...