What would we do with abundant energy? I dream of virtually unlimited, clean, dirt-cheap energy, but lately, we have been going in the wrong direction. As J. Storrs Hall notes, in 1978 and 1979, American per capita primary energy consumption peaked at 12 kW. In 2019, we used 10.2 kW of primary energy (and in 2020, […]
U.S. based technology startup Quaise Energy is looking at disrupting the geothermal sector with a completely unique drilling technology that could help tap deep supercritical resources. Geothermal energy systems have the potential to power the world and become the leading technology for reducing greenhouse gas emissions if we can drill down far enough into the […]
Jonathan Buck COLLEGE STATION, TX — New Texas A&M research is aimed at using passive sounds in fractured rock to map channels for geothermal energy. While seismic surveys can produce a picture of subsurface areas… they can also be difficult to decipher. Now, Texas A&M researchers over at the Petroleum Engineering Department, hope that a different […]
Give geothermal the same permitting concessions as oil and gas on public lands Eli Dourado Senior Research Fellow It’s hard to overstate the importance of the shale revolution. Unconventional oil and gas wells have made the United States a net energy exporter for the first time since the 1950s. The revolution has been a […]
