We Can Have (Just About) Everything We Want For Energy & The Climate

Credit to Author: George Harvey| Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2022 21:05:31 +0000

Solar FarmThe only things we have to give up are killing people and wrecking the environment. Okay, let’s start with a list of the things we would really like to have for energy and the climate in the year 2050. For many CleanTechnica readers, the list of things we want to replace the business-as-usual (BAU) approach […]

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U.S. Mining & Geothermal Industries Could Strike G.O.L.D. Through Partnership

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 03:50:24 +0000

A partnership between the mining and geothermal industries could lead both toward a more lucrative and greener future. Across the United States there are more than 3 million abandoned mining wells. Each hole drilled into the ground offers more than just the ghost of minerals never found. There are layers of valuable data waiting for […]

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What Are Geophones?

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 23:44:46 +0000

The Tool That Could Unlock the Potential of Geothermal Energy Deploying 60 gigawatts of geothermal electricity would be enough to provide clean, reliable power for 129 million American homes and businesses. A key factor to unlocking that amount of always-available geothermal energy could be through innovation in subsurface seismic sensors, or geophones. A Hot Research […]

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DOE Launches $84 Million Enhanced Geothermal Energy Systems (Video)

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 16:00:54 +0000

geothermal energy systems enhancedDOE Requests Information on Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Investments to Spur Growth in Geothermal Energy Systems, A Source of Round-the-Clock Clean Power

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U.S. DOE Launches $84 Million Enhanced Geothermal Energy Systems Program (Video)

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 16:00:54 +0000

geothermal energy systems enhancedDOE Requests Information on Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Investments to Spur Growth in Geothermal Energy Systems, A Source of Round-the-Clock Clean Power WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [last week] issued a request for information (RFI) to support $84 million in enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) pilot demonstration projects included in President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure […]

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Renewable Generation Surpassed Nuclear in the U.S. Electric Power Sector in 2021

Credit to Author: U.S. Energy Information Administration| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 11:00:43 +0000

Electric power sector generation from renewable sources totaled 795 million megawatt-hours (MWh) in the United States during 2021, surpassing nuclear generation, which totaled 778 million MWh. The U.S. electric power sector does not include electricity generators in the industrial, commercial, or residential sectors, such as small-scale solar or wind or some combined-heat-and-power systems. Renewable generation […]

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Betting A Billion Dollars On Low-Carbon Grid Transformation Tech

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2022 17:05:18 +0000

Virtually all of those technologies are mature and robust today. We don’t need to invent a lot of new technology, we just need to deploy existing tech.

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Mexico’s Clean Energy Ambitions Realistic With These Renewable Energy Resources

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 19:54:16 +0000

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) released an in-depth report on the potential for clean energy development in Mexico. Mexico is replete with solar and wind resources and has remaining untapped potential in geothermal and hydropower. NREL’s Mexico Clean Energy Report concludes that, in light of this potential and the low […]

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NREL Celebrates the Powerful Women of Water Power

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 23:15:03 +0000

Power to the Women: For Women’s History Month, NREL Celebrates the Powerful Women of Water Power This article is the first of two in a Women’s History Month series that showcases a handful of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL’s) outstanding women researchers in water power. “Are women really interested in renewable energy technologies?” asked an NREL […]

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