Dec
14
Bright New Hope For Geothermal Drilling
December 14, 2012 | 6 Comments
Foro Energy, Inc. is working with the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARPA-E and the Colorado School of Mines plus the Big Oil leader Chevron that has geothermal activities underway, and investors ConocoPhillips and General Electric to develop a unique capability and hardware system to transmit high power lasers over long distances via fiber optic cables […]
Mar
20
Geothermal Drilling Could Get Easier
March 20, 2012 | 2 Comments
About 30 years ago Sandia Labs developed polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) bits for geothermal drilling. Today nearly two-thirds of the oil we use comes from wells drilled using the (PDC) bits. That’s technology gone astray, valuable – and still missing the original point. Now Sandia and the U.S. Navy recently brought the technology back full […]
Jul
11
Building Step One for Major Geothermal Growth
July 11, 2011 | 2 Comments
University of Nevada’s Bureau of Mines and Geology in the College of Science funded by a $1 million Department of Energy grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has reached the one-year mark. The money is being spent to understand and characterize geothermal potential at nearly 500 sites throughout the Great Basin […]
Jun
9
A Better Geothermal System
June 9, 2011 | 2 Comments
Two University of Minnesota Department of Earth Sciences researchers, Earth sciences faculty member Martin Saar and graduate student Jimmy Randolph have developed a new way for tapping heat beneath the Earth’s surface. The pair has already named the method, called CO2-plume geothermal system, or CPG. The research was published in the most recent issue of […]
Mar
15
A Lot More Geothermal Power Is Coming
March 15, 2011 | 3 Comments
According to a report released last week by Pike Research we’ll see a significant increase in the use of geothermal as an energy source between now and 2020. The Pike Research analyst constructed several scenarios based on an estimated 10.7 gigawatts of geothermal capacity in existence throughout the world in 2010. The U.S., the world’s […]
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