By Monday morning at 8:00, please post your thoughts on this talk and find an article related to geothermal energy to review.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Post 10: Geothermal Energy
Today we listened to the recording of Gwen Holdmann (ACEP)'s talk about geothermal resources in Alaska, and how this resource may be used in Nome, Alaska. Here is a link to the website where the other talks in this series have been recorded: http://alaskarenewableenergy.org/about/events/reap-monthly-forums/
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This talk was interesting, it made me want to learn more about geothermal energy, and the Chena hot spring plant. Alaska could really benefit from geothermal energy especially if we can still generate power with lower temperatures. Im am still really curious about, when they were testing areas around Seward why it got cooler when the drill past a certain depth. Anyway I enjoyed this talk it got me thinking about geothermal and if Alaska could really produce it on a larger scale.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/4245896
I chose this article because it was about Chena Hot Springs. I wanted to learn mare about how the plant works, and the article provided great graphic that takes you through the process. It's just amazing how engineers figured out how to generate geothermal power from such a low temperature. It really opens doors to new forms of energy, especially for the villages that are still using diesel generators. If they can figure out away to get geothermal power to the villages it would drop prices for drastically, and provide clean energy. Its very interesting and I would love to learn more.
I found this speech interesting because of how this is another way of producing energy. I always find it interesting when there are different ways of gathering energy to give power to things we need. This is very useful in Alaska so places that do not have easy access to other energy sources can use geothermal instead to gather energy.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/business/energy-environment/lithium-producer-chases-teslas-bold-battery-plan.html?ref=geothermalpower&_r=0
It was announced, Tesla Motors is going to open the world’s largest lithium battery factory to keep up with their high demand in their high-end electric cars. Brine is used to create this element. People retrieving this element from the ground care for the environment, plotting carefully so no contaminants spread into nearby water. Why I chose this is because I like the idea of the demand for electric cars instead of the natural gas cars.
I'm sorry this post is late, I've been busy with a lot of things. In regards to the last class we had, I didn't really understand the concept of geothermal energy.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000108689&story_title=geothermal-will-lower-power-costs/
After looking up what exactly geothermal energy is, I chose this article to talk about. The article talked about how geothermal energy powers 90 percent of Iceland's electricity, as well as Kenya's electricity. The article also mentioned that the steam is so powerful it's been generating Kenya's geothermal energy for 3 decade
This article was interesting because it seems that Kenya is going to be able to produce cheap energy due to geothermal energy gathering.