{"id":112,"date":"2007-03-20T07:57:42","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T15:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/?p=112"},"modified":"2007-03-20T07:57:42","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T15:57:42","slug":"no-change-geothermal-research-cut-in-doe-2008-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"No change, Geothermal Research cut in DOE 2008 budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;The Department of Energy has not requested funds for geothermal research in our fiscal-year 2008 budget,&#8221; said Christina Kielich, a spokeswoman for the Department of Energy. &#8220;Geothermal is a mature technology. Our focus is on breakthrough energy research and development.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This has been widely reported since December, 2006 and is appalling as geothermal power is in no way &#8220;mature&#8221; and there are still several breakthroughs required to realize the vast potential of harvesting heat from the earth including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deep drilling to 10km<\/li>\n<li>Warm water harvest (25-75C)<\/li>\n<li>Engineered geothermal systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With the change from the mid-term elections, there is still hope the Department of Energy position can be modified on this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Department of Energy has not requested funds for geothermal research in our fiscal-year 2008 budget,&#8221; said Christina Kielich, a spokeswoman for the Department of Energy. &#8220;Geothermal is a mature technology. Our focus is on breakthrough energy research and development.&#8221; This has been widely reported since December, 2006 and is appalling as geothermal power is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gI6x-1O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}