A reader just asked me this: Doesn’t all our energy come from the sun? Fossil fuels are old sunlight, and anything else we burn is new sunlight. We have to burn this one way or the other, and that creates …
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From Guest Blogger Patrick Gibson: Geothermal Heating For Sustainable Homes
The costs of energy are on the rise around the world. But the good news is that today there are sustainable heating and cooling options available for home-owners looking to build or remodel a green home. Geothermal heat pumps are …
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From Guest Blogger Heather: Renewable Home Energy Tips For Your New Home
There are quite a few options after moving to utilize possible renewable energy sources around your home, such as wind turbines, solar panels and more. In most cases using solar panels is the popular choice for heat, lighting and electrical …
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Bringing Geothermal Energy to Sub-Saharan Africa
I skipped last week’s Renewable Energy World North America international geothermal session, but according to what I’m reading here, the focus was on emerging markets – especially sub-Saharan Africa, where 60% of the population lives without electrical power.
Engineering-related Internship at 2GreenEnergy
I just had a conversation with a college engineering student looking to do an internship at 2GreenEnergy. I sure hope this works out, as it’s a terrific “win-win-win,” as I like to call it: a) 2GreenEnergy gets more high-quality content, …
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The Good News: Geothermal Produces Baseload Power. The Bad News…..
This article on geothermal makes an important point: geothermal produces baseload power, just like coal or nuclear. That’s the good news. The bad news is that exploration is expensive, and its success is hard to predict. When I was listening …
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From Guest Blogger Gary Tulie: Geothermal Anywhere
Imagine it was both possible and affordable to drill down anywhere to a sufficient depth to find rock hot enough to generate high pressure steam! This is the target of a Slovak company called Geothermal Anywhere. Geothermal Anywhere uses a …
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Geothermal Power Generation — Breakthrough?
Here’s a note from Gary Tulie, a frequent commenter in the UK: Craig: I would like to let you know about an innovative company in Slovakia developing a spallation [a process in which fragments of material (spall) are ejected from …
Energy Security Infographics
Here’s a terrific set of infographics on energy security, i.e., the concept of preventing impact to our lives due to a disruption of energy. Obviously, this needs to be a huge factor in the discussion surrounding renewables. To the degree …
Video on Geothermal Energy
As an ongoing part of our series in which we introduce the basics of renewable energy to young people and newcomers to the subject, here’s a short video I made recently on geothermal. Here I talk about the fundamentals, and …
