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#401 2024-08-27 10:32:03
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Re: Geothermal and Geothermal Battery (Changed Title 12/21/23)
I ran into a few articles today:
Not Thermal Battery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU16iUYKPr4
Quote:
Texas Oil Wells Hold a Renewable Energy Solution | American Innovators
Thermal Battery:
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/scienti … y-storage/
Quote:
Researchers Successfully Turn Abandoned Oil Well into Giant Geothermal Battery
Thermal Battery:
https://e360.yale.edu/features/kern-cou … gy-storage
Quote:
Can a California Oilfield Be Retrofitted to Store Solar Energy?
The transition to renewables requires batteries that can store energy for long periods of time. To meet that demand, engineers in California’s Kern County are aiming to revamp depleted oil wells to hold concentrated solar energy in super-heated water underground.By Stephen Robert Miller • May 23, 2024
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#402 2024-10-02 06:48:51
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Re: Geothermal and Geothermal Battery (Changed Title 12/21/23)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technol … r-AA1rymdX
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Company announces achievements in development of seemingly unlimited underground power source: 'The most productive enhanced geothermal system in history'
Story by Jeremiah Budin • 12h • 2 min read
Geothermal could be of use on Mars as well.
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#403 2024-12-10 09:10:21
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Re: Geothermal and Geothermal Battery (Changed Title 12/21/23)
Sage Geothermal looks interesting: https://www.sagegeosystems.com/
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r … ORM=WRVORC Quote:
New Generation Geothermal: The Future of Energy with Sage Geosystems’ Cindy Taff
YouTube
Forging the Future with Chris Howard
5 days ago
Their methods are a bit different. They apparently inflate a well like a lung, usually cycling about 20% of the liquid with each inflation/deflation.
-They say that for the actual geothermal they can put heat in, and expect then to get out 2 times as much energy.
-They also seem to have a method to tap the water flow itself at a 70% round trip efficiency.
So, then seem to intend to store solar and wind energy. But they are not necessarily only about thermal storage, but as I have said they seem to indicate that they can also get actual geothermal energy out as well.
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#404 2024-12-21 11:03:51
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Re: Geothermal and Geothermal Battery (Changed Title 12/21/23)
Here is another claim: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/i … b6e2627&ei
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t’s Fracking Marvelous: Geothermal Set To Become Miracle New Energy Source
Story by Douglas McIntyre • 3d • 2 min read
So, I know that there are haters here for alternative energy. But I anticipate improvements if function of Solar, Wind, and Batteries. And geothermal might be able to substitute for Natural Gas Peaker plants I think.
I don't have much problem with responsible nuclear, but politics are real. Some things just can't happen because powerful entities will not let them happen.
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