Oil drilling rigs could use this to create energy from hot water they now discard.
This quite amazing new technology is from an inventor in Alaska teaming up with heavyweight United Technologies.
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Raser Technologies has devised a way to create geothermal energy from water only as hot as a cup of coffee. This is much cheaper than other geothermal techniques and can be done in more places too. Plus, unlike solar or wind, geothermal produces power 24/7. [...] The new Raser Technologies geothermal plant in Utah will start producing power for Anaheim, CA as soon as this week, with zero carbon emissions too. The plant was built and will go online in less than one year. Geothermal is baseline energy, it’s always there, always available. This is proven technology, substantial parts of [...] The U.S. Office of Fossil Energy has announced the first successful generation of electricity using geothermal technology from a producing oil well. This is a smart and ingenious way to create energy. Geothermal has the potential to create massive amounts of power. The plant will become the sole power source for the school in a few years, making Oregon Tech the only university to be powered completely by geothermal energy. This is for both heat and energy. Iceland heats 90% of their homes with geothermal energy. 80% of their power comes from hydro with the remainder from geothermal. It’s so cheap that they heat sidewalks in winter with it. While geothermal isn’t completely renewable, it is certainly mostly so, which makes Iceland probably unique in that virtually all its power and [...] While all the geothermal power plants in the US produce less than 1% of total power, the southwest has the potential to produce over 20%. The Geysers in northern California is the largest geothermal plant in the world, producing more than 750 MW. |  | ||||
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