Lithium is an important element in electric and hybrid car batteries. The Lawrence Livermore Lab has developed a way to make it simpler and easier to remove lithium from waste water from geothermal plants.
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Fuel cell tractors coming soon. This is a natural for farm equipment because they can easily be refilled from a central source. Eight-wheeled electric sports car. Each wheel is powered by a separate motor. Energy efficient supercomputer. Fast and green. Recently discovered geothermal field in Utah now powering Anaheim CA, who is purchasing the power [...] Algae into jet fuel. Geothermal heat pump stocks. According to a new USGS study, geothermal if developed fully, could generate about half the currently installed US generating power, a huge amount. The DOE says algae fuel could replace all petroleum fuel in the US using an area about the size of Maryland. This could be done on non-arable land with small amounts [...] The Google Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Google, is big on finding new ways to get low-cost renewable energy. One of their main interests is in advanced geothermal, and their blog details their new investments and grants. Clean Break explains why. Geothermal is booming in the States too. This award winning house in Wisconsin gets 70-80% of its heat from the sun and earth with passive solar energy and geothermal radiant slab hydronic heating. Plus, the price wasn’t substantially higher than a regular house. It was all in the design that allowed a house in quite cold Wisconsin to heat itself [...] It will be a demonstration of how hot rocks geothermal is a viable option. So, they will build a 1 MW plant and the 12 residents of the town will get free power. These are exciting times for power generation, with all manner of new ideas being tried and tested. Some, undoubtedly, will go mainstream. [...] Taped at Davos 2008. Google is in the forefront of working to remediate global warming and is spending lots of money to do so, including their nonprofit, Google.org, which targets other issues like poverty too. One of their primary goals is to make renewable energy cheaper than coal, with an initial emphasis on solar [...] |  | ||||
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