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  Triple Play: Sou Hills Project

  10.09.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Triple Play: Sou Hills Project

  Originally published at Montara Energy Ventures. In August, 2007, MeV acquired a lease and development rights on ~1700 acres (~700 hectares) of land in Nevada’s East Dixie Valley. This area is a Known Geothermal Resources Area (KGRA) with a functioning plant, Ormat’s Dixie Valley 60MW facility, in the near vicinity. Given the parcel’s location in […]

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  Steamboat Springs Geothermal Plant

  10.08.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Steamboat Springs Geothermal Plant

  Originally published at Montara Energy Ventures. Lower Steamboat Springs Geothermal Plant Last week on the way home from the GRC annual meeting, we decided to take a side trip that would take us by the Lower Steamboat Springs Geothermal plant operated by Ormat. The view above is courtesy of Google Maps, the view below was […]

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  Spallation Drilling

  10.05.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Spallation Drilling

  Originally published at Watch a video of spallation here. One of the more interesting talks and technologies at the GRC Annual Meeting was given by MIT Researcher Potter Drilling in Redwood City and discovered that not only was it possible to keep the flame active in the high pressure aqueous environment, but that temperatures necessary […]

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  Geothermal Resources Council Annual Meeting

  10.04.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Geothermal Resources Council Annual Meeting

  Originally published at Montara Energy Ventures. The Geothermal Resources Council (GRC) held its annual meeting this year in Sparks, Nevada at John Ascuaga’s Nugget hotel and convention center October 1-3. The event was heavily attended by developers, service providers, geologists, and financiers and featured several heavyweight speakers including Alexander “Andy” Karsner from the Department of […]

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  PG&E CFL Giveaway

  10.03.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  If you live in Pacific Gas & Electric’s service area, you can get a great deal on CFLs. Read the press release and plan to go replace the bulbs that are most appropriate. I wrote an article about this about a month ago (coincidentally, it’s the most popular article I’ve ever written with over 40,000 […]

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