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  Best Geothermal Reference

  12.13.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Best Geothermal Reference

  An associate recently referred a text book to our attention: Geothermal Power Plants: Principles, Applications, and Case Studies. (A second edition is due to be released this month.) Have you ever wanted to understand or model hydrothermal reservoir characteristics? Have you ever wanted to simply grok what a hydrothermal reservoir is? Would you like to […]

• Energy

  Multi-dimensional harvest experiment

  12.12.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Multi-dimensional harvest experiment

  Via Renewable Energy Access: Northern California Power Agency (NCPA) and SPG Solar, announced that they will together to build a 1 megawatt (MW) single-axis solar tracking system that will provide renewable energy to an existing pump station that supplies the NCPA Geysers Geothermal Energy Plant. The array will be used to collect solar power to […]

• Energy

  Geothermal Library

  12.11.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Geothermal Library

  The Geothermal Resources Council has recently made a new resource available for its members. The organization has taken over 3,000 technical articles produced in the GRC Transactions and Special Reports and posted them in a research library. This will be an incredibly valuable resource to those interested in geothermal electricity production. Access the GRC Research […]

• Business, Energy

  Geothermal Development and Finance Workshop

  12.10.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Geothermal Development and Finance Workshop

  The Geothermal Energy Association, a group that is effectively the geothermal industry’s lobby in Washington, D.C., is sponsoring another Development and Finance Workshop. We’ve attended two of these and can say, for people trying to break into geothermal, they’re a value-added event. Also, like all of these events, it’s proven to be an excellent networking […]

• Energy, Politics

  House passes Energy Bill, again

  12.07.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on House passes Energy Bill, again

  Via CNN: The House of Representatives passed the first major increase in fuel economy standards in more than 30 years with a 235-181 vote. The energy bill requires automakers to raise their average fuel economy standard by 40 percent to 35 miles per gallon by 2020. The current standard — 27.5 mpg for cars and […]

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