IN MY EFFORTS TO GET UNDERSTANDABLE and easy to read information in the hands of consumers on green technologies, it is refreshing to see an affordable book come out on geothermal heating and cooling technologies.
A new report by the Geothermal Energy Association has shown that the global market for geothermal energy is continuing to grow. It identifies seventy countries that are moving forward with new geothermal energy projects, with almost 700 projects noted in total.
Deep Earth Energy Production Corp. (DEEP) set to receive $2.2 million from Natural Resources Canada and SaskPower to fund a study to determine the viability of geothermal energy in Saskatchewan, a prairie province in west-central Canada.
Interactive map for the rebewable energy projects in Romania
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Geothermal technologies use thermal and sustainable clean energy of the Earth. Geothermal resources include heat retained in the soil at shallow, warm water found a few kilometers from the subsurface of the earth and extremely high temperatures of molten magma deep underground.
Hydraulic fracturing is most well known in the natural gas arena, however one company is hoping to change that. Using an existing well that had become unproductive, high-pressure water, 800psi to 1000psi, was injected to fracture the rocks with a hope of allowing enough water to circulate in order to make the process economically feasible.
A fully dispatchable geothermal plant in Hawaii may influence power contracts in states like California that have a significant amount of energy but dwindling capacity with intermittent renewables.
