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  More Geysers development

  12.15.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on More Geysers development

  Back in October, Western GeoPower (TSX: WGP) announced their intent to rebuild a power plant on the site of old “PG&E Unit 15” commencing operations in 2009. This is interesting in that there was a plant on that site producing 65MW from 1979-89. By resizing the plant to 25MW (net,) Western GeoPower believes that they’ll […]

• Energy, Innovation

  Organic Rankine Cycle

  12.13.06 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  The Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) is a fancy name for a binary system taking heat from a source and transferring it to a working liquid in a closed system to be vaporized and pressurized, typically turn a turbine, then condense back to liquid form before flowing through the heat exchanger again to repeat the cycle. […]

• Business, Energy, Technology & Science

  $428 per server per year

  12.06.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on $428 per server per year

  Garden variety data center photo Yesterday I had a conversation with a colleague who is now working in a large, and I mean large, server environment. There are many challenges he faces, but chief among them is power consumption and cost. They are now having to place their data centers according to power supply capabilities […]

• Coastal Stuff, Energy, Innovation

  Return to the age of sail?

  12.05.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Return to the age of sail?

  You know fuel prices are going up and carbon emissions standards are tightening when we return to a prior age to harvest technology. Now admittedly, the picture above isn’t your garden variety xebec (great scrabble word btw,) but it is interesting that the hybrid technology of the 19th century is making a comeback. This kind […]

• Energy

  Seismic activity at The Geysers

  11.30.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Seismic activity at The Geysers

  One of the tidbits picked up on our recent trip to The Geysers was about the seismic activity around the resource. Since it is a geothermal resource, one of the things an exploration team looks for is seismic activity as it is a primary indicator of resource. It was a surprise to me (but really […]

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