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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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A Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age
The Green Deal Industrial Plan will be structured around four pillars, all relevant for hydrogen technologies and their applications:
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All Party Parliamentary Group for Hydrogen | UK
A New Form of Energy
Has anyone noticed that we use the same type of batteries to power, smart-phones, laptops, electric vehicles, C&I facilities and Grids. These are all lithium-ion batteries. Yes there are a number of chemistries, ranging from expensive to very..
How to update a carbon market
The EU's emissions trading system is the world's largest carbon market and will soon get even bigger when reformed rules come into play. This week we get an insider take on the updated ETS from one of the negotiators that helped write the new rules.
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