Last week, Thomas Blakeslee of the Clearlight Foundation wrote a piece for Renewable Energy World on the coming baseload crunch. It’s well worth your time to read the article in its entirety.

The core thesis to the piece is that adding wind and solar are great, but they’re both intermittent power sources and there is only so much intermittent supply that should be added to the grid. We’ve heard different levels, 20% being the most commonly accepted figure.

Blakeslee gives an impassioned argument on why we should be paying much more attention to geothermal power as an energy source – something that certainly resonates with us – due to resource availability, superior capacity factor, and the advances in harvest technologies that have appeared over the last 30 years.

This entry was posted on Monday, April 21st, 2008 at 6:44 am and is filed under Geothermal.