DoE Begins Tests for Fracked Geothermal
The Trump administration is no friend of wind and solar. Axed subsidies and project suspensions have been the attitude towards those alternative forms of energy.
Why It Matters
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Key Facts
- Fact 1: According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, just 33,000 feet below the Earth’s surface, there is 50,000 times more energy than the energy all the oil and gas in the world can produce.
- Fact 2: First of all, 33,000 feet is quite deep, and getting to this depth to tap the planet’s sub-crust heat is both technologically challenging and expensive.
- Fact 3: It then started injecting water at a rate of 10 barrels per minute.
- Fact 4: The water heated to temperatures of 370 F.
The Trump administration is no friend of wind and solar. Axed subsidies and project suspensions have been the attitude towards those alternative forms of energy.
Geothermal, however, is something else. The current Department of Energy is very much for it. In fact, it is so much for it that it funded an experiment that would show whether fracking technology could be used to generate geothermal anywhere in the world.
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