Like New Hampshire for instance. And Texas.
The region where geothermal power might be developed is Earth. Not much chance on cold planets and other heavenly bodies.
I have generally found heavenly bodies cold as ice but that is personal. Environmentalists generally seem to have the same problem.
“A Boston-based geothermal company is exploring the potential to develop a 10-megawatt plant in the North Conway area over the next two years.<<
Well that’s a rather modest start on hot dry rock technology that the worthies at MIT called something else so as not to be associated with hot dry rock.
Unlike the small thinking types that inhabit New England, flat earthers in Texas think big:
“Because most oil and gas wells are quite deep, they are warmed by the natural thermal gradient of the earth. In 2004 the U.S. produced over 5×1010 bbl (that’s 2,100,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons!) of “waste” water along with the oil and gas production, primarily from the Gulf States with temperatures high enough to produce electricity. This hot water could be used to generate power directly, without impacting oil and gas production. Some estimates suggest up to 5000MW of additional power could be generated in Texas alone — that’s more than 10 times the amount of power used by the entire State of Alaska!”
Even flatter-earthers in Florida seem to have some ideas along the same lines.
“Nuke ’em,” say many environmentalists.
I personally would rather not. There is far more power to be mined underground for free if folks would just do it.
Well the drilling and stuff costs some but you know what I mean.
BTW the DOE has zeroed out all research on geothermal power. Who needs it says Bush?
Best, Terry
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very much in the whole alternative energy discussion. A couple from our church has their house warmed (and is it possible, cooled?) by a geothermal unit of some kind. I don’t know much about it, except that they said it was expensive to install, and then that was it. The other thing they said, is that the ground freezes outside around the unit? could that be right?