Bob Morris @ May 6th 2008 11:45 - Category: Renewable energy, Solar power Tags: geothermal;
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 through solar, geothermal, and a brick fireplace that radiates heat.
Bob Morris @ May 6th 2008 06:33 - Category: Renewable energy Tags: geothermal;
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. Other may remain niche sources, but hey, you you live near geothermal sources, they why get power from other sources that may be miles away. Localized power generation from micro sources can provide plenty of power too.
Bob Morris @ Feb 26th 2008 07:07 - Category: Climate change, Solar power, Wind turbines Tags: geothermal;
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 thermal, deep geothermal, and high altitude wind.
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