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Hot Rocks – The Perfect Renewable Energy
This post will start in my deep past, over 40 years ago and travel several decades into the future. The subject of this post is Geothermal Power, a renewable energy source that was first used to generate electricity in Larderello, Italy, in 1904, and thus is one of the oldest renewable energy sources. It has been used in my home state (California) to generate a significant amount of our electric energy since the early 1960s.
In 1985 I became heavily involved with the Geysers Geothermal Generating Field, what is now (still) is the largest in the world by several metrics.
However I have never posted a paper about Geothermal Power. I have decided to rectify this failure and write this post. As I started researching this, I found that this technology has not only been amazing in the past and present, it will be important to our efforts to overcome climate change in the future.
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The GT Power Hour: Episode 33 (All Eyez on Md.: MD PSC Chair Jason Stanek's big task)
In which we welcome back Md. Public Service Commission Chair Jason Stanek to discuss the tensions and challenges presented by Maryland’s Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022.
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Avi Gopstein is the smart grid program manager and group leader at NIST, the US federal government's National Institute of Standards & Technology, which has played and still plays an ongoing key role in the development of interoperability..
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