• SINGLE BOREHOLE GEOTHERMAL ENERGY EXTRACTION SYSTEM FOR ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION

    Updated: 2010-09-02 20:58:40
    Search Sign Up Sign In Main My Page Members Events Discuss Groups Links Notes Photos Videos Blogs Chat Leaderboards All Blog Posts My Blog Add a Blog Post SINGLE BOREHOLE GEOTHERMAL ENERGY EXTRACTION SYSTEM FOR ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION Posted by George E Lockett on March 21, 2008 at 7:50am View George E Lockett's blog Recycling spent oil and gas wells Having seen the problems disposing of the Brent Spar oil platform , it is time to look for alternate uses for offshore platforms when it becomes uneconomical for them to continue production . One alternate use could be the extraction of geothermal energy . The continental shelf in the UK , where these platforms are situated , has a relatively thin earth's crust , giving the wells high bottom hole temperatures . Heat from these wells can be

  • Hyundai To Sell Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars In 2012

    Updated: 2010-09-02 20:31:22
    In a bid to one-up their competition, Hyundai has announced that they will sell hydrogen fuel cell cars starting in 2012 three years before Toyota, Honda and the rest of the competition. Seeing that renewable energy is becoming decidedly cheaper ...

  • In California, Large and Small Generators Tussle Over Grid Rules

    Updated: 2010-09-02 20:02:43
    To help California reach its renewable portfolio standard goals, The California Independent System Operator (the ISO) may be aggravating a rivalry between large- and small-scale renewable energy producers.The Small Generator Interconnection Procedure...

  • Miami's Only LEED Gold Tower Can Withstand 300mph Winds!

    Updated: 2010-09-02 19:50:52
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  • America's First Zero Energy School to Open This Month

    Updated: 2010-09-02 19:23:28
    Richardsville Elementary, a new LEED Platinum School in Kentucky, is getting extra credit by being the first zero energy school in the nation! Opening this month to much anticipation, the facility is a cornucopia of green building strategies and effi...

  • Women Move Corporations Green

    Updated: 2010-09-02 15:27:16
    At the Pasadena Convention Center, the Women in Green Forum is bringing together professional women (and yes, a few men) from various industries and functions to discuss topics from finance to fashion. Yesterday afternoon, women with sustainability l...

  • The Biggest Green Market? Seven Reasons Why It's Green IT

    Updated: 2010-09-02 12:08:33
    Over the past few weeks, I've had a number of meetings with engineers, executives and investors and such, and I keep coming away with the same conclusion.The fastest-growing and arguably most attractive segment in alternative energy and energy effici...

  • Leaked Study on Peak Oil Warns of Severe Global Energy Crisis

    Updated: 2010-09-02 07:38:18
    Join the forum discussion on this postThis week a study on peak oil by a German military think tank was leaked on the Internet. The document shows that the German government is closely studying the issue of peak oil, and is aware of the potential fo...

  • Gorgeous Green Tree Home Takes Root in Bulgaria

    Updated: 2010-09-02 06:00:55
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  • Peace Corps to Start Clean Energy Program in the Americas

    Updated: 2010-09-02 05:30:36
    Since 1961 when President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps by executive order, thousands of volunteers have traveled to developing countries to implement programs that range from AIDS education to information technology and environmental p...

  • Electric Cars get A+ from EPA

    Updated: 2010-09-02 05:28:00
    By John Addison (9/2/10 from original post at Clean Fleet Report) New Proposed Stickers When you go shopping for a new car it is useful to see a quick summary of fuel economy, how much you might save in fuel over 5 years, and the price. Now that pe...

  • Amazing Mineral House is a Multi-Faceted Micro Home in Japan

    Updated: 2010-09-01 23:40:36
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  • Back on the Radar: Chesapeake Energy

    Updated: 2010-09-01 22:50:29
    The Manual of Ideas submits:Chesapeake Energy (CHK) has for some time been synonymous with the vast untapped opportunity in U.S. onshore natural gas shale plays. As gas prices have remained depressed relative to oil prices longer than most expected, ...

  • The Uneven Energy Playing Field and the Spindoctors who Ignore it

    Updated: 2010-09-01 21:48:56
    There has been a recent surge in articles from fossil-fuel friendly sources pointing to the inequity of tax credits and government subsidies being directed to the renewable energy sector. The latest is by Alan Caruba writing on the industry-backed C...

  • Dark Silicon' Could Boost Smartphone Battery Life 11 X

    Updated: 2010-09-01 20:49:22
    It may sound like a mineral used in an evil scientist's death ray, but dark silicon' actually refers to underused transistors found in modern microprocessors and scientists believe that this resource can be tapped to improve the batteries of e...

  • Climate Skeptic - Now with Less Skepticism!: Lomborg Changes Tune

    Updated: 2010-09-01 20:45:00
    For those who like me missed the news on Monday: the world's most well known climate change skeptic has done a dramatic about face.Bjorn Lomborg's 1998 book The Skeptical Environmentalist has been a pillar for critics of climate science...

  • Recurve Gets New CEO, Hones Its Strategy

    Updated: 2010-09-01 19:53:02
    Recurve, the energy efficiency retrofitter and software developer, is getting a retrofit itself.The company has hired Andy Leventhal as its new CEO, replacing Pratap Mukherjee. Leventhal co-founded Planet Metrics, a carbon accounting company, in 2007...

  • The Future of Sustainable Paint Manufacturing

    Updated: 2010-09-01 19:37:15
    You can have a Model T in any color, as long as it's black. The automotive world has come a long way since Henry Ford made this statement while introducing the revolutionary Model T Ford in 1908. Today, paint color and quality both play major r...

  • Amazing Mineral House is a Mult-Faceted Micro Home in Japan

    Updated: 2010-09-01 19:19:36
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  • NexGen Energy and Bella Energy Win Largest Solar Rooftop Project In The US

    Updated: 2010-09-01 19:09:58
    Two Colorado companies were chosen to develop a solar power system on the Calvin L. Rampton Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. NextGen Energy, a project developer and owner based in Boulder, and solar integrator Bella Systems, bas...

  • NexGen Energy and Bella Energy Win Largest Solar Rooftop Project

    Updated: 2010-09-01 19:09:58
    Two Colorado companies were chosen to develop a solar power system on the Calvin L. Rampton Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. NextGen Energy, a project developer and owner based in Boulder, and solar integrator Bella Systems, bas...

  • Geothermal Energy in Argentina - National and International Public Call for Investors. Domuyo Geothermal Project

    Updated: 2010-08-28 17:12:58
    By Adinqu.gov.ar The Agency for the Promotion and Investment of the Province of Neuquén, company of

  • Chile expects US$200m in geothermal investments until 2012

    Updated: 2010-08-27 20:06:44
    By Think GeoEnergy As Chile is one of the most seismically active nations on the planet, with freque

  • Search for partners in geothermal power projects in Turkey

    Updated: 2010-08-27 01:00:28
    By seham (Eco Periodicals) The local community of a small Western Turkish town boasting one of the b

  • Nevada's geothermal prospects heat up

    Updated: 2010-08-19 20:49:19
    By Jason Hidalgo (RGI.com) With an installed capacity of a little more than 400 megawatts, Nevada

  • Geothermal plant could create Cornwall civil engineering jobs - news.careerstructure.com

    Updated: 2010-08-18 11:33:30
    News by region South East London International Scotland North East Leeds East Midlands West Midlands Yorkshire Humberside East Anglia South West North West Wales Northern Ireland National News by sector Commercial Building Services Residential Local Authority Public Sector Water Geotech Traffic and Transport Oil Gas Power News archive Add to favourites Advertisment Oil Gas Power South West News Geothermal plant could create Cornwall civil engineering jobs 18 08 2010 18:13:01 Plans for a new geothermal power plant in Cornwall have been approved , which could boost civil engineering recruitment in the . county Cornwall County Council has given Geothermal Engineering permission to start construction work on Britain's first commercial deep geothermal power plant near Redruth , which will

  • Geothermal energy plant receives construction permit - Power-Gen Worldwide

    Updated: 2010-08-18 09:50:58
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  • Hot Rock signs contract for $7m geothermal drilling program grant - Energy Business Review

    Updated: 2010-08-18 04:02:43
    Search the EBR website Anonymous User Login Home Latest News Company Events Webinars Suppliers White Papers Intelligence Store Network : Sites Oil Gas Exploration and Development Drilling and Production Refining and Petrochemicals Transportation and Storage Power Generation Fossil Fuel Nuclear Wind Hydro Solar Biofuel Power Distribution Utilities Network Utilities Retail Mining Commodity Coal Carbon Uranium and Plutonium Clean Technology Print Email Australian grant for Hot Rock's geothermal drilling program Published : 18-Aug-2010 Geothermal energy company Hot Rock has signed a contract for a grant of A$7m from the Australian government to carry out a drill and test program at its Koroit Hot Sedimentary Aquifer Geothermal Project in the Otway Basin in southwest . Victoria The geothermal

  • Council gives green light to Geothermal Engineering UK plant - Recharge

    Updated: 2010-08-17 03:20:40
    , , , RSS feed Facebook Twitter Trial Subscribe Wind Solar Biomass Wave Tidal Hydro Geothermal Politics Finance Innovation regions Europe Russia North America South America Middle East Africa Asia Pacific events careers Geothermal Ryan Law , managing director of Geothermal Engineering , at the United Downs industrial estate Photograph : Geothermal Engineering Council gives green light to Geothermal Engineering UK plant UK outfit Geothermal Engineering has been granted planning permission to develop a groundbreaking geothermal power plant at a site in the south-west of the country . Login Username Password save username and password Forgot your password Darius Snieckus Published : Tuesday , August 17 2010 Print Email Share Register for a FREE two-week trial FREE daily newsletter Field To is

  • Geothermal boss maps out Cornish ambitions - Business Green

    Updated: 2010-08-17 01:42:09
    main site asia site Green Leadership Green Debate Green IT Green Capital Green Tech Green Work Home News In-depth Reviews Blog Audio Video Resources Green Glossary Jobs Newsletter BusinessGreen.com News Renewables Geothermal boss maps out Cornish ambitions UK's first deep geothermal plant gets the green light , but project will still require additional funding round James Murray , BusinessGreen 17 Aug 2010 The UK's first deep geothermal power plant could be up and running by 2013, after Cornwall Council last week gave the go-ahead for the pioneering 65MW . project UK-based Geothermal Engineering Ltd said it expects to begin drilling the first deep well at the proposed site on an industrial estate in Redruth early next year . The 4.5km-deep well is expected to access rocks that reach

  • Debate On Proposed Coal Power Plant Sidelines Introspection - Prof Saleem - Bernama

    Updated: 2010-08-17 00:20:41
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  • Science Report Advocates Using 'Disturbed' Land for Solar Plants - Sunpluggers.com

    Updated: 2010-08-16 23:14:26
    September 2, 2010 Search this site : Science Report Advocates Using Disturbed' Land for Solar Plants in Arizona California environment Nevada power plant PHOTO CREDIT : SOLAR HOME BUSINESS JOURNAL Every effort should be made to avoid and minimize any new disturbance of soil surfaces in the siting , design , construction and maintenance of large-scale solar power plants , says a draft report by the science advisors . Above , an existing road cuts through the Southwestern desert near a proposed solar power plant . site Published Aug . 16, 2010 Just as the first wave of large-scale solar power plants proposed in the U.S . Southwest is about to arrive at a decision point , a new science report could throw cold water on some of the . plans A draft report of recommendations from the Independent

  • Hot Rock receives A$7m geothermal drilling grant for Koroit project - Proactive Investors Australia

    Updated: 2010-08-16 22:38:39
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  • Akutan, Alaska's Geothermal Exploration Paying Off

    Updated: 2010-08-15 20:13:46
    By Alaska Business Monthly The City of Akutan is in hot water, but that’s a good thing. The first of

  • GEA Process Engineering has secured an order worth 35 Million NZD order for geothermal milk processing line

    Updated: 2010-08-14 18:41:01
    In a greenfield operation in New Zealand, GEA Process Engineering has secured an order worth more th

  • Slovakia seeing development of first geothermal power plant

    Updated: 2010-08-14 18:24:40
    By Think GeoEnergy The first geothermal power plant in Slovakia is currently being planned in the ea

  • Tata, Medco Leading Race for Sumatra Geothermal Project: Energy Ministry

    Updated: 2010-08-14 18:13:21
    By Jakarta Globe The Indonesian government has shortlisted Medco Energi International and India’s Ta

  • PetroEnergy to pursue geothermal plant project (8/12/2010)

    Updated: 2010-08-12 01:42:06
    Publicly-listed PetroEnergy Resources Corp. (PERC) will push through with its 40-megawatt (MW) Maiba

  • EDC’s Negros plant still running below capacity (8/09/2010)

    Updated: 2010-08-09 02:53:14
    Lopez-led Energy Development Corp. is looking for options to maximize the use of its 49-megawatt Nor

  • Nicaragua to expand geothermal energy with IDB help

    Updated: 2010-08-06 00:47:36
    By Inter-American Development Bank The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announced the approval

  • Abundant Power from Universal Geothermal Energy

    Updated: 2010-08-06 00:22:55
    By Kevin Bullis The answer to the world’s energy needs may have been under our feet all this t

  • Nevada could develop large Geothermal industry with 86 projects under way

    Updated: 2010-08-06 00:10:53
    By John Seelmeyer Nevada Appeal The availability of capital, experienced professionals and electric

  • Philippine geothermal company Energy Development Corp to spend $1bn on clean energy

    Updated: 2010-07-31 20:21:34
    By New Energy World Network The company, which saw its first half net income soar by more than 113 p

  • Indonesia aims to boost geothermal power

    Updated: 2010-07-31 19:57:41
    By UPI.com While Indonesia boasts some 40 percent of the world’s geothermal reserves, less tha

  • St. Lucia: Volcanic island seeks geothermal power

    Updated: 2010-07-31 19:51:52
    By DAVID McFADDEN (AP) The volcanic island of St. Lucia plans to tap geothermal power trapped beneat

  • Geothermal Power Going Mainstream?

    Updated: 2010-07-31 18:50:10
    By Philippe Dumas and Thomas Koelbel (Renewable Energy World) Widespread use of Enhanced Geothermal

  • Department of Defense sits on large geothermal potential

    Updated: 2010-07-31 18:41:18
    By Think GeoEnergy In a reporty by the U.S. Department of Defense, it says that land owned by the de

  • EDC investing $1B in ‘green energy’ projects over five years (7/30/2010)

    Updated: 2010-07-30 10:11:21
    LOPEZ-LED geothermal power firm Energy Development Corp. (EDC) plans to invest more than $1 billion

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