Any so-called republicans are psychos that Trump gave license to and only a fucking moron would vote for them. There are no excuses, just hate and bigotry driving idiots to suicide, and they want to take the rest of us with them. When their homes are wiped out by floods, hurricanes and tornados they will just blame Biden. Climate change isn't real, Trump won the election and is innocent, the world can no longer afford fact free people and psychos in leadership. Of course, people die every day believing what they want and it's ok, just as long as they don't take the rest of us with them!‘Battle plan’: How the far right would dismantle climate programs
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These projects are in the Great Basin, a terrain formed by tensile rupture of the lithosphere. If they drill at the “lap joints”, they access shallow hot rock not available elsewhere. I’d be impressed if they drilled in Wisconsin.When I see a steady source of power like this or hydro, I think the number of customers served per megawatt generated could be doubled or more with grid scale storage. Most of the time our house uses little energy except for peak periods when heavy loads are required by many at the same time, like in the morning and early evening, times when power can be stored in batteries. Grid scale batteries will do a lot to increase grid efficiency and its ability to handle peak loads, as well as storage for intermittent renewables.
The results: According to the company, the pilot test set two new records for an enhanced geothermal system, with a demonstrated flow rate of 63 liters per second and a power output of 3.5 MW, which is enough to support about 2,600 homes.
Google-backed startup sets two world records in geothermal power
No other enhanced geothermal system can output this much power — and they’re just getting started.
https://www.freethink.com/energy/enhanced-geothermal-system
I think we will need every clean energy source we can get our hands on to make it. If we can decarbonize transport, cement and steel making we would be well on our way to a brighter future, the technologies exist to do it and are constantly improving.These projects are in the Great Basin, a terrain formed by tensile rupture of the lithosphere. If they drill at the “lap joints”, they access shallow hot rock not available elsewhere. I’d be impressed if they drilled in Wisconsin.
I agree that increments matter. But starkly missing from the article is the viable lifetime at high power draw of the proposed boreholes.I think we will need every clean energy source we can get our hands on to make it. If we can decarbonize transport, cement and steel making we would be well on our way to a brighter future, the technologies exist to do it and are constantly improving.
It could be these bore holes can be cycled, shut down for a time while the rock heats up again. Several holes could be used spaced miles apart and the power plant can switch to a refreshed one when the one it is using drops off, but it would drive up costs by a lot if this was required for any more than a couple of holes per power plant. I think the deep you go the hotter it gets, and the less likely power will drop off over time, but deep geothermal needs new technology that is being tested now by companies using several different drilling approaches.I agree that increments matter. But starkly missing from the article is the viable lifetime at high power draw of the proposed boreholes.
It’s quite similar to the concern about projects to drill very deep for geothermal energy. If each bore yields a few terajoules before falling off the power economy curve, it’s pie in the sky.
Sorely missing from these speculations sourced from the sales pitches by interested parties is the worst-case analysis.
“Here is the worst combination our model (or better, a conservative open-source model from unaffiliated university geology teams) predicts, and here is the revenue stream under those conditions.”
I’ll wait for proof of both concepts: technical and financial. I am less entertained than you by vaporware.It could be these bore holes can be cycled, shut down for a time while the rock heats up again. Several holes could be used spaced miles apart and the power plant can switch to a refreshed one when the one it is using drops off, but it would drive up costs by a lot if this was required for any more than a couple of holes per power plant. I think the deep you go the hotter it gets, and the less likely power will drop off over time, but deep geothermal needs new technology that is being tested now by companies using several different drilling approaches.
We are going to need everything we can get, so if serious people are giving it a go, then it is worth a look and spending a few bucks on if it makes sense to do so, a fraction of what is spent on fusion would do.I’ll wait for proof of both concepts: technical and financial. I am less entertained than you by vaporware.
Sure.We are going to need everything we can get, so if serious people are giving it a go, then it is worth a look and spending a few bucks on if it makes sense to do so, a fraction of what is spent on fusion would do.