Tuesday, May 22, 2012

USA, West Virginia:

Scientist: Widespread Production of Geothermal Energy Attainable (State Journal)


The recommended path for enabling 100,000 megawatts of electric capacity from geothermal resources by 2050 comes to less than the price of one demonstration clean-coal power plant.


The recommendation comes from Cornell University scientist Jefferson Tester, who led a national panel hosted at MIT that produced a major geothermal resource study in 2007. Tester spoke at the Enhanced Geothermal Energy Development Conference May 22 in Flatwoods.

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