Geothermal Power

Atlas Maps Renewable Energy Resources
Posted in Software, Biomass, Geothermal Power, Solar Power, Wind Power, Renewable Energy, Hydroelectric Power, News on Monday, January 09 2012
A new geospatial application developed by the DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) allows users to map potential renewable energy resources in the United States. The interactive tool is called RE Atlas, and is free to use and available online.
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Capturing and Using Waste Heat from Cars, Factories, and Power Plants
Posted in Waste-to-Energy, News, Alternative Fuels, Green Design & Manufacturing, Geothermal Power, Solar Power, Energy Efficiency, Thermoelectrics, Energy, Transportation, GDM on Monday, June 27 2011
New technology is being developed at Oregon State University to capture and use the low-to-medium grade waste heat from automobiles, diesel generators, or factories and electrical utilities. The new systems should be able to use much of that waste heat either in cooling or the production of electricity.
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Geothermal Technology Sequesters Carbon Dioxide Underground
Posted in News, Green Design & Manufacturing, Greenhouse Gases, Geothermal Power, Renewable Energy, Energy, GDM on Wednesday, June 22 2011
University of Minnesota researchers have developed an innovative approach to tapping heat beneath the Earth’s surface. The method is expected to not only produce renewable electricity far more efficiently than conventional geothermal systems, but also help reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide.
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Geothermal Technology Advancement for Rapid Development of Resources in the U.S.
Posted in News, Geothermal Power, Renewable Energy, Energy, Government Initiatives, Government, GDM on Thursday, June 16 2011
DOE has announced that up to $70 million is available in funding for technology advancements in geothermal energy. Innovations in exploration technologies to locate geothermal energy resources and improvements in resource characterization, drilling, and reservoir engineering techniques are targeted.
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Funding Opportunity for Geothermal Heat Extraction R&D
Posted in News, Green Design & Manufacturing, Greenhouse Gases, Geothermal Power, Renewable Energy, Energy, Government Initiatives, Government, GDM on Monday, August 23 2010
The Department of Energy’s Geothermal Technologies Program recently announced a $15 million funding opportunity to research and develop innovative methods to extract heat from geothermal resources from the Earth’s crust to produce clean, renewable energy.
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Geothermal Heat Extraction Process Takes Advantage of New Liquid
Posted in News, Videos, Videos, Geothermal Power, Renewable Energy, Energy, GDM on Thursday, July 16 2009
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have come up with an innovative approach that can safely and economically extract and convert heat from untapped geothermal resources. The heat recovery method makes the most of low-temperature “hot rock” resources.
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Designing the First Fully Sustainable Block in the U.S.
Posted in Building Technologies, Features, Remediation Technologies, Green Design & Manufacturing, Geothermal Power, Solar Power, Wind Power, Renewable Energy, Energy, GDM on Wednesday, June 24 2009
In the near future, a crumbling parking lot in downtown Dallas, Texas will be the location of the first fully sustainable, urban square block in the United States. Re:Vision Dallas is the sixth competition in a series from the San Francisco, California-based organization, Urban Re:Vision – a group of people focused on changing the urban landscape by re-imagining the components which make up a city block.
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