Apr
21
Big Growth From Little Geothermal
April 21, 2010 | 2 Comments
Small geothermal in the US grew in the past year with 144 projects under way in 15 US states. When completed, the projects will add more than 7,000MW of baseload power capacity, roughly equivalent to the total power used in California from coal-fired power plants. That’s an average of 37.25MW each. It really adds up. […]
Jan
22
The Missing Geothermal Technology
January 22, 2010 | 43 Comments
Regular readers might recall this writer isn’t wedded to only using fluids for circulating into geothermal reservoirs. A link sent by a reader led to a fellow well on the way to having a ground source geothermal system that transfers energy with air instead of water, antifreeze or other fluids. Its an air to air […]