A Nobel Laureate winner in Physics and a chemical engineering professor at MIT are hopeful that geothermal, particularly ‘Enhanced Geothermal Systems’, will be the renewable energy solution to extend geothermal power generation beyond plate boundaries to almost anywhere on Earth (see brief video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6r_3AgI49Y&feature=player_embedded).
Drilling 4-10 kilometers into Earth’s crust and injecting water to create thousands of small pathways for the water to flow, be heated, and brought back to the surface to power turbines and generate electricity, also inevitably carries back to the surface (more…)
