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Geothermal energy could meet a fifth of UK’s power needs – report
The study found that subsidising geothermal technology initially would help to bring down costs rapidly as UK sites were developed The UK could meet a fifth of its power needs – the equivalent of nine...
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When Energy Begins to Flow Long Distance
With rising energy prices and stringent requirements for producing a higher proportion of energy from renewable sources in the near future, long-distance electricity cables are increasingly thought of...
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UK On Collision Course With Europe Over Renewable Energy Targets
The UK is set for a showdown with Europe over the proposed introduction of a new set of legally binding renewable energy targets beyond 2020. The European Commission has today announced plans to...
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Chuck Neubauer: Lights go dim on another energy project
Geothermal losses pile up A geothermal energy company with a $98.5 million loan guarantee from the Obama administration for an alternative energy project in Nevada – which received hearty endorsements...
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Repost: Lights go dim on another energy project
My apologies to readers and Chuck Neubauer, I didn’t excerpt or link this item when I tried to post it last week. Take II: “Geothermal losses pile up” A geothermal energy company with a $98.5 million...
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Cheap power under our feet
“UK borrows Iceland’s geothermal techniques to tap the heat at the centre of the Earth to solve our energy woes“ And yet geothermal has proven remarkably resistant to exploitation. Hot rocks...
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Bishop Hill: Fracking for heat
An article in E&E Greenwire reports that a start-up company in the USA is about to test the use of fracking techniques to access geothermal energy sources: The company has finished setting up...
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Andrew Orlowski: Greens wage war on clean low-carbon renewable energy
Geothermal: what the frack is wrong with that? The most promising renewable energy of all is making pro-renewable Greens frightened and angry. It’s geothermal energy, which taps into the natural warmth...
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