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Mar 19 | News
Nearly two-thirds of the oil we use comes from wells drilled using polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) bits, originally developed nearly 30 years ago to lower the cost of geothermal drilling. Sandia National Laboratories and the U.S. Navy recently brought the technology fullcircle, showing how geothermal drillers might use the original PDC technology, incorporating decades of subsequent improvements by the oil and gas industry.
Jan 15 | News
Geothermal
energy developers plan to pump 24 million gallons of water into the
side of a dormant volcano in Central Oregon this summer to demonstrate
new technology they hope will give a boost to a green energy sector that
has yet to live up to its promise. The federal government, Google and
other investors are interested enough to bet $43 million on the project.
10/27/2011 | News
In part four of a continuing Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study on scalable energy candidates, researchers from the MIT Energy Initiative discuss how there are many sources that can make a contribution to our energy supply, but likely not at a major scale in the near future.
10/25/2011 | News
According
to the first Google.org-funded geothermal mapping report, thermal
resources totalling more than 3 million MW of power are stretched out
across the U.S. The report’s authors say that, using current
technologies, enough could be recovered to exceed coal plant production.
10/11/2011 | News
The lack of a settled legal framework that balances private
property rights while maximizing the public good ultimately hinders the
large-scale commercial deployment of geologic carbon sequestration,
according
to published research by a University
of Illinois expert in
renewable energy law.
9/29/2011 | News
Two geothermal energy projects led by researchers at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) have been selected to receive funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. These projects promise to help accelerate development of geothermal energy technologies and diversify America’s sources of clean, renewable energy.
9/15/2011 | News
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has received $890,000 from U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy to help accelerate geothermal energy technology. The main project, "Stochastic Joint Inversion for Integrated Data Interpretation in Geothermal Exploration," aims to reduce resource exploration costs by developing a processing technique for a variety of geophysical and geological parameters.
9/15/2011 | News
Their critics weren't convinced the first time, but Rice University researchers didn't give up on the "ice that burns." The Rice team has expanded upon previous research to locate and quantify the amount of methane hydrates—a potentially vast source of energy—that may be trapped under the seabed by analyzing shallow core samples.
9/9/2011 | News
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced $38 million over
three years for projects to accelerate the development of promising
geothermal
energy technologies and help diversify America’s sources of clean,
renewable energy.
8/9/2011 | News
A team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists hopes to become the first in the world to produce electricity from the Earth’s heat using carbon dioxide. They also want to permanently store some of the carbon dioxide underground. The technology could lead to a new source of clean, domestic energy and a new way to fight climate change.
