{"id":221,"date":"2007-06-27T08:49:12","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T15:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/2007\/06\/27\/cnnmoneycom-discovers-geothermal\/"},"modified":"2007-06-27T08:49:12","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T15:49:12","slug":"cnnmoneycom-discovers-geothermal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"CNNMoney.com discovers geothermal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2007\/06\/27\/news\/economy\/geothermal\/index.htm?section=money_topstories\">In an article published today<\/a> shows that the world is slowly waking up to geothermal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nNEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) &#8212; Old Faithful and expensive contraptions in the basement that never really worked &#8211; that&#8217;s what many people think of when they think geothermal energy.<\/p>\n<p>But thanks to advances in technology, a better political climate and rising electricity prices, geothermal is quickly losing its status as renewable energy&#8217;s most unloved sector. In fact, investment in the sector jumped nearly fourfold over the last two years, to about $100 million last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This resource is available, and it could develop to 30 times what is currently used,&#8221; said Curt Robinson, executive director of the Geothermal Resources Council, an educational and professional organization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2007\/06\/27\/news\/economy\/geothermal\/index.htm?section=money_topstories\">&#8220;>Read more&#8230;<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are two issues with this article, one, there are enormous hydrothermal systems available to harvest (if only there was an exploration program to look for them) &#8211; HDR isn&#8217;t the only growth area. And two, utilities are falling over themselves to buy geothermal energy to meet RPS needs. Why? Because it&#8217;s baseload power friends and it&#8217;s the only renewable other than hydro-electric power that can claim to be baseload.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt is nice to see the world waking up a bit, solar and wind are great, but they can&#8217;t (and won&#8217;t) solve the problem on their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article published today shows that the world is slowly waking up to geothermal: NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) &#8212; Old Faithful and expensive contraptions in the basement that never really worked &#8211; that&#8217;s what many people think of when they think geothermal energy. But thanks to advances in technology, a better political climate and rising [&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],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gI6x-3z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"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=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}