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 […]
For more than a century, graduates of The University of Texas School of Law havebeen leaders in law, public service, and civic leadership, living extraordinary lives thatembody the university’s beloved motto, “What starts here changes the world.” Startingin 1958, the Texas Law Alumni Association established an annual award to honorgreatness in the law school’s alumni […]
‘We need to not have all our eggs in one basket’: Why geothermal energy could be a game changer Geothermal provides a stable, consistent energy source that’s not dependent on the weather. Experts see huge potential for it—especially in the West. Geothermal power currently provides only a tiny fraction of the nation’s electricity. But as […]
Cindy Taff, For the Express-News March 12, 2022 Texas has long been known as “the energy state.” I, and many others, have long supported an “all of the above” approach to energy development here. This has been fairly easy given the abundance of varied resources found within Texas. Yet one resource, geothermal energy, has not historically […]
Texas Geothermal Energy Alliance Launches Texas-based association to focus on near-term geothermal opportunities AUSTIN, TEXAS (January 13, 2022)—The newly-organized Texas Geothermal Energy Alliance (TxGEA), a Texas-led advocacy group created to advance geothermal energy in Texas, officially launched operations. TxGEA is a broad and interdisciplinary group of entities engaged in geothermal resource exploration, well drilling, […]
“Geothermal is really ready for golden time,” says Tim Latimer, founder and CEO of EGS startup Fervo. The appeal of geothermal energy lies in its consistency. The power output of wind and solar power plants varies depending on the weather and time of day, but geothermal power is always on, providing a stable source of […]
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Just 15 miles northeast of downtown Austin is a new community redefining sustainable living. Whisper Valley is a community made up of zero-energy capable homes, or homes built and designed to produce a large portion (if not, all) of their own energy. How? By using geothermal energy, solar energy and smart home […]
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 […]
