Archive for category Geothermal Power

170 MW Geothermal Plant Built In Carribean Island of St. Lucia

Posted by Mircea in Geothermal Power on August 21, 2010

Being only the half the size of Los Angeles, the St. Lucia island has a decent infrastructure and tends to attract the interest of many investors. St. Lucia’s government decided to sign this agreement with Qualibou Energy, to keep up with world’s renewable energy trends.

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Renewable Energy from Volcanoes to Power Island of St. Lucia

Posted by Mike in Geothermal Power on July 28, 2010

According to a new study, the Caribbean islands represent one of the perfect location for the development of renewable energy.

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Global Geothermal Power Capacity Increased by 20% During Last Five Years

Posted by Mike in Geothermal Power on June 28, 2010

According to a new report made by Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), the geothermal energy is growing rapidly worldwide. Between 2005 and 2010, the U.S. maintained its leading position in production, with the most MW installed, while Germany had the fastest growth.

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Indonesia Planning to Get Another 4,000 MW from Volcanic Geothermal Plants by 2014

Posted by Ovidiu in Geothermal Power on April 27, 2010

Indonesia, the world’s third greenhouse gas contributor, wants to diversify its clean energy production potential by using the active volcanoes in the archipelago of 17,000 islands. If finished, this would be the world’s biggest geothermal energy project, adding another 4,000 MegaWatts of geothermal capacity to the existing 1,189 MW… all of this by 2014.

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New Technology Extracts Lithium from Geothermal Waste Water

Posted by Mike in Geothermal Power on December 11, 2009

The new technique developed by California-based Simbol Mining could make geothermal wells even more valuable. Extracting lithium with old technologies has up to now been considered impractical.

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Injecting CO₂ Instead of Water in Geothermal Wells Could Triple-Serve the Environment

Posted by Ovidiu in Geothermal Power on November 18, 2009

When we hear about carbon dioxide, it’s like hearing of a serial killer. LBNL (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), and a CA-based company Symyx Technologies, instead, aided by several U.S. universities, have changed the image of this greenhouse gas a bit by putting it into a green job: geothermal energy harvesting.

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Turkish Company Begins Exploitation of 60MW Geothermal Field

Posted by Ovidiu in Geothermal Power on October 15, 2009

The group already owns a 17.4 MW plant on a field where it has operating rights since September last year, so this new geothermal field can bring them a total of 77.4MW of power.

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Unused Old Mines Could Be Used as Geothermal Power Sources

Posted by Cristi in Geothermal Power on July 30, 2009

Geothermal energy has a lot of potential worldwide. As it is not dependent on many factors, geothermal energy could be the cleanest power source of near future. Two scientists from University of Oviedo, Spain, have concluded that geothermal energy could be provided by mine shafts.

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Geothermal Efficiency Boosted Up to 30% by Newly Discovered Liquid

Posted by Ovidiu in Geothermal Power on July 27, 2009

Scientists from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA, announce they developed a new type of heat extracting liquid that could absorb much better the heat coming from the hot water in the geothermal wells.

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Earthquakes: The Other Side of Drilling for Geothermal Power

Posted by Ovidiu in Geothermal Power on July 2, 2009

Geothermal technology surely is one of the cleanest technologies available to us, extracting clean heat from the hot underground. This energy source is often seen as inexhaustible, and its benefits seem to outweight its weak points. For decades, geothermal companies have been drilling into Earth’s crust at depths of over 4-5km.

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