“[I]f the Texas drilling industry drilled as many geothermal wells as it currently does oil and gas… the state could run itself off geothermal power by 2027.” If wishes were…
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US Politicians Pin Green Hopes on a Geothermal Energy Breakthrough
Geothermal energy in most places is an expensive dead end. But like the masked baddie in a low budget horror flick, it won’t stay in its grave, it keeps returning…
“Hot Rocks 2”? Melbourne Uni Professor Urges More Geothermal Energy
In 2009, Tim Flannery’s Geodynamics won a $90 million government grant. By 2016 it was all over. But six years is a long time in the world of geothermal energy…
Thwaites glacier: Significant geothermal heat beneath the ice stream
Nevertheless, the heat flow could be a crucial factor that needs to be considered when it comes to the future of Thwaites Glacier. According to Gohl: “Large amounts of geothermal…
Latest Climate Change Solution: Direct Air Capture Powered by Geothermal Energy
Why bother with capturing concentrated CO2 from combustion exhaust, when you can spend “a wartime level of funding” capturing trace concentrations of CO2 directly out of the air?
The geothermal energy revolution
There is a revolution coming in geothermal energy. How big it will be and how fast it can grow remains to be seen, but the revolutionary technology is here now.
Geothermal Energy: The Great COP25 Climate Surprise?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall For a long time Geothermal energy has been an expensive joke, even for people who claim solar and wind power is viable. History is littered…
Geothermal ocean warming discussion thread
Reposted from Climate Etc. Posted on July 21, 2019 by curryja by Judith Curry “The atmosphere bias of climate science makes it impossible for them to see geological forces and…
60,000 gallons of Flammable Liquid Removed From Volcano Risk Hawaii Geothermal Plant
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Puna Geothermal Venture has removed 60,000 litres gallons of flammable Pentane from a geothermal plant in the path of the Hawaii volcanic eruption. But concerns…
New map of Antarctic geothermal heat suggests Steig & Mann 2009 weren’t measuring ‘global warming’
This is quite interesting. Remember the claim in on the front cover of Nature in 2009 by Steig and Mann that Antarctica was warming, thanks to that “special Mannian PCA…
Study finds surprisingly high geothermal heating beneath West Antarctic Ice Sheet
From the “it still doesn’t matter, your SUV is melting the continent” and the 0.3 watts/sq meter it contributes isn’t ANYTHING close to the “about two-tenths of a Watt per…
New paper finds West Antarctic glacier likely melting from geothermal heat below
Via the Hockey Schtick – A paper published today in Earth and Planetary Science Letters finds evidence that one of the largest glaciers in West Antarctica, the Thwaites Glacier, is…
Uh oh: Study says 'collapsing' Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica melting from geothermal heat, not 'climate change' effects
Remember the wailing from Suzanne Goldenberg over the “collapse” of the Thwaites glacier blaming man-made CO2 effects and the smackdown given to the claim on WUWT? Well, never mind. From…
Another kind of 'fracking', this produces geothermal energy
From the AGU fall meeting comes some pragmatic engineering tests with fracking like methods that produce geothermal energy. Developers of renewable energy and shale gas must overcome fundamental geological and…
First geothermal energy map of the USA now in Google
Via Slashdot, drill baby drill, but for heat, not oil. The Google funded Enhanced Geothermal Systems research at the Southern Methodist University has produced a coast-to-coast geothermal potential map of…
Geothermal Ice Circles in Russia’s Lake Baikal?
In the “Steig et al – falsified” thread, since we have been discussing geothermal activity along the Antarctic peninsula, I thought I’d pass along these images that show other parts…
Climate Change and Volcanoes
Hence any “increase in volcanic eruptions due to ongoing deglaciation since the end of the Little Ice Age may not become apparent for hundreds of years.”
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #593
“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star.…
NYSERDA Solar Quiz Misinformation
The entire Climate Act legislation and narrative is characterized by black and white cartoon descriptions.
Which Power Source is Best
The report concludes that “natural gas and nuclear power lead the rest of the class in generating clean and affordable energy”.
Officialdom Responds to Doubts That a Renewables-Based Electricity System Will Work
Give answers that don’t make any sense while appealing to apparent authority, and expect the public to accept the answers without asking probing questions.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #592
“A coincidence of interests is always more powerful than a conspiracy.”
‘Trust science’, Paris mayor boasts as city declares ‘there will be no air conditioning in Olympic athletes’ rooms ‘to cut the carbon footprint’ of summer Olympics
There will be no air conditioning in the athletes’ rooms at Paris 2024, which has pledged to host the “greenest ever” Games. … Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo told those nations…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #591
“My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles … That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need…