• SINGLE BOREHOLE GEOTHERMAL ENERGY EXTRACTION SYSTEM FOR ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION

    Updated: 2010-08-31 20:18:02
    Search Sign Up Sign In Main My Page Members Events Discuss Groups Links Notes Photos Videos Blogs Chat 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 utilised to

  • Deere Sells Wind Energy Business To Nuclear Power Exelon

    Updated: 2010-08-31 18:45:56
    Consolidation in the energy industry appears to be inevitable due to the slow economic recovery as Deere & Co. (DE:NYSE) announced it was selling John Deere Renewables to Exelon Generation Company (EXC:NYSE). The $900 million sales includes earn out ...

  • 5 Smartphone Apps that Boost Your Brain Power!

    Updated: 2010-08-31 18:30:30
    The daily grind can have even the brightest of us feeling about as sharp as a sponge. So why not take a few moments on your daily commute or while having a cup of joe to juice up your brain power with these 5 mind boosting smartphone apps? From fun p...

  • Clean energy drowned out in Washington by a Two Billion Dollar Juggernaut

    Updated: 2010-08-31 18:01:16
    capitol coal.JPG Red State bloggers are all in a tizzy over an Open Secrets article showing that the American Wind Energy Association spent over $5 million last year on lobbying politicians in Washin...

  • Prefabricated Bank Campus Cashes in on Sustainability

    Updated: 2010-08-31 16:34:40
    Russia's leading bank has just unveiled plans to construct a green-roofed corporate university designed by Dutch Architect Erick van Egeraat. Located in a rural setting west of Moscow, the Sberbank University will provide education and training for t...

  • Sustainability is Not Black Or White - More Sustainable is Possible

    Updated: 2010-08-31 15:57:35
    Image credit: D'Arcy Norman & timtak (Creative Commons)When I wrote about industrial agriculture exploring sustainability, commenter Ruben suggested that the idea of something being more sustainable was illogical. Citing Bill Rees, the inventor of ...

  • U.S. Coast Guard to Install New Wind Turbine at Base in Maine

    Updated: 2010-08-31 15:48:04
    Following in the footsteps of the U.S. military's embracing of renewable energy, such as fighter jets running on biofuel and hydrogen fuel cell powered tanks, the U.S. coast guard has decided to use wind power by installing a turbine at their Southwe...

  • Boxy Wooden Treehouse Tower Now Open in Netherlands!

    Updated: 2010-08-31 14:43:40
    We've seen plenty of tree houses in our day, but never one as boxy and modern as this new wooden observation tower which recently opened in the Netherlands. Okay so technically the structure, which consists of six boxes (that almost look like shippin...

  • Self-Sufficiency Versus a Backyard CSA (Video)

    Updated: 2010-08-31 14:43:15
    Image credit: Peak Moment TVA few years ago, Scott McGuire launched an experiment in backyard sustainability exploring how much food he could grow in his backyard for his family, and whether they could reach self-sufficiency. So what happened? Havi...

  • Business and ethics?

    Updated: 2010-08-31 13:13:07
    BOONE Topics from environmental ethics to religion and nature will be featured during the 2010 Business and Environmental Ethics Conference Sept. 17 at Appalachian State University. Other topics include environmental economics, strategy and nature,...

  • Small & Medium Sized Enterprises: Why Do a GRI Report?

    Updated: 2010-08-31 09:25:38
    The following post is part of a series on 3p about the global reporting initiative and is part of a promotion for our upcoming GRI certification course in November By Brooks Nelson Getting training to create a sustainability report can be a hard sell...

  • Efficiency Works: Creating Good Jobs and New Markets Through Energy Efficiency

    Updated: 2010-08-31 08:00:00
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  • Exelon to Buy John Deere's Wind Projects for $860 Million

    Updated: 2010-08-31 08:00:00
    08/31/2010 - Exelon Corporation has announced an agreement to acquire John Deere Renewables, an operator and developer of wind power, in a transaction that will add 735 operating megawatts of clean, renewable energy to Exelon's generation portfolio, ...

  • Taastrup Theater Renovation Boasts a Stunning Prismatic Facade

    Updated: 2010-08-31 06:00:06
    Read the rest of Taastrup Theater Renovation Boasts a Stunning Prismatic Facadehttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feedPermalink Add todel.icio.us ...

  • Geothermal: Getting Energy from the Earth

    Updated: 2010-08-31 05:57:10
    By Lester R. BrownThe heat in the upper six miles of the earth's crust contains 50,000 times as much energy as found in all the world's oil and gas reserves combined. Despite this abundance, only 10,700 megawatts of geothermal electricity generating ...

  • Global Solar Enters the CIGS Flexible Solar Module Business

    Updated: 2010-08-31 05:00:15
    Global Solar has been shipping flexible CIGS solar cells for years for applications in portable solar charging, as well as selling PV cells in strings for other vendors to assemble into modules. Global Solar has also supplied CIGS cells to Dow's so...

  • Solar needs a new Metric

    Updated: 2010-08-31 03:42:00
    I just read a very interesting article from Motley Fool on the oversupply of solar in the marketplace that is predicted in 2011. The article went on to try to compare the competitive position of the thin-film mfg and the crystalline mfg based on $/W...

  • SunPower Scores More U.S. Government Solar Installations

    Updated: 2010-08-30 22:06:58
    With its share price needing a boost, SunPower (SPWRA, SPWRB:NASDAQ) announced today it has been selected to install its solar technology at several U.S. government properties totaling a minimum of 20 megawatts (MW). Today's announcement is in addit...

  • Green Business Blog Carnival #12 at Green Building Elements

    Updated: 2010-08-30 21:38:58
    Another week, another Green Business Blog Carnival. Our friends at Green Building Elements did a very nice job of wrapping up the news you can use from the green business blogosphere Quite a variety of stories this week from the business of sust...

  • Pop-Up Village for Haiti Made From 900 Shipping Containers

    Updated: 2010-08-30 21:15:32
    Haitian Canadian musician Luck Mervil is leading the charge to help rebuild Haiti with houses made from repurposed shipping containers. Mervil is behind the Montreal organization Vilaj Vilaj, which wants to use 900 shipping containers to build an ent...

  • Friends of the Earth Urges End to 'Land Grab' for Biofuels

    Updated: 2010-08-30 21:00:00
    by Katie AllenCharity predicts more food shortages in Africa because of EU target to produce 10% of all transport fuels from biofuels by 2020Cane cutter wields machete. Friends of the Earth says that biofuel crops, including sugar cane, 'are competin...

  • 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
    August 31, 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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