Tag: enhanced geothermal
Underground Heat, Urban Cool: The Physics & Promise of Geothermal Cooling
Cooling in the Persian Gulf is one of the hardest energy challenges anywhere on the planet. Air conditioning is not a luxury in the United Arab Emirates but a necessity, and it consumes as much as 70% of the country’s electricity. That reality has made Masdar City, the experimental urban … [continued]
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Fracking Hydrogen From Rocks: Clever Tech, Tough Economics
Engineered mineral hydrogen is an elegant idea. Water reacts with iron rich magnesium and iron rich, silica poor igneous rock — ultramafic — from Earth’s mantle rocks to release hydrogen, and with the right chemistry and temperature you can raise reaction rates and collect a clean product. In the lab … [continued]
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What Makes Geothermal Energy So Special?
Faster, cheaper, better: Next-generation geothermal energy systems are poised to compete against conventional power plants for baseload electricity generation.
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New 150-Megawatt Solar Power Plant Greenlighted For New Mexico (And Texas)
The leading renewable energy developer DESRI is behind a new 150-megawatt solar power plant in New Mexico, which will also send clean kilowatts into Texas, too.
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Beyond CATF’s Biased Analysis: Why Firm Power Isn’t The Full Answer
CATF recently published a report entitled Beyond LCOE: A Systems-Oriented Perspective for Evaluating Electricity Decarbonization Pathways advocating for a shift in how we evaluate energy technologies. At face value, their core criticism, that Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) alone does not capture the full economic complexity of integrating intermittent renewable … [continued]
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