Month: December 2022

Getting close to Earth’s sun-hot core is key to scaling geothermal energy plants. But it’s harder than it looks to dig miles into the ground. *Tapping into the energy content of heat stored underground would meet the world’s energy needs.*To do so, the engineering would focus on millimeter waves that vaporize rocks to drill deeper than ever before.*An MIT […]

Pumped hydro already accounts for 93% of utility-scale energy storage in the US, and plans are in the works to build up from there.ByTina Casey The US Department of Energy has been eyeballing pumped hydro energy storage for a makeover, and it looks like they have a winner. The Texas firm Quidnet Energy has just […]