THE Geothermal Thread (merged)

Armageddon

So we are all going to be driving $100,000 hydrogen cars ?

lostinspace · Coal Joined: May 22, 2008 Posts: 4

lostinspace · Coal Joined: May 22, 2008 Posts: 4

HEADER_RACK · Intermediate Crude Joined: Feb 15, 2007 Posts: 507

Pay attention class
This is what a zombie looks like before being zombiefied
Note the deluisional thinking and far out fantasies
stay far away from them when they start to get the "deer in the headlights" look. Not long after they will start to change and become Dangerous
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americandream

We've a whole stinky town of geo-thermal vents in New Zealand and are still oil addicts. Doesn't that say something?
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Tyler_JC

This one seems a little far-fetched...
But geothermal energy is an important part of the energy grid in places like Iceland and could become a major player in other places with geothermal resources.
Hawaii seems like the logical place to build more geothermal plants. Diesel generators supply much of the island chain's power (IIRC) and geothermal resources are enormous thanks to volcanic activity.
If geothermal is anybody's future, it's got to be the Hawaiians.
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JPL

The crying shame about geothermal is that it does have immense potential. Right beneath us, in many sites around the world we have more high-quality heat energy than we could ever wish for.
The problem is that the technology is about 100 years beyond us (as our new troll buddy pointed out). Drill bits snap & twist, even igneous rock turns into a material more like a liquid than a solid, under the temperatures & pressures involved. And, ahh, then, the sheer joys, even if you do get it right, of pumping liquid water underground & then trying to control the passage of superheated steam deep underground in a place you can never even visit, save on a computer model, still less marry up a turbine inlet to.

Electric_Economy_2025 · Heavy Crude Joined: Apr 01, 2008 Posts: 143

New homes build should have geothermal heating and cooling systems put in instead of the standard AC and heaters. They are 20% to 40% more efficient and would be even more efficient if you use solar to power the unit.
IF your changing out you heating and cooling system I would change over to a geothermal unit.

newbonic

JPL

lostinspace · Coal Joined: May 22, 2008 Posts: 4

Oil wells are on the way out so what will be the next source of big energy-? Here is one concept. What do you think-?[img]http://www.imageurlhost.com/viewer.php?file=et0m7mbbsbwafkevmanc.jpg]

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