Energy Journalist Trapped in Effluent From Electric Power Station
The journalist Stephen Lacey, who podcasts for REW, was caught in the discharge from an electric power station that he was writing about for his magazine.
Oh, did I say trapped in effluent? What I meant to say was that the effluent from the power station is a tourist trap. Stephen was caught in a tourist trap.
The power station effluent he was caught in was Iceland’s Blue Lagoon. Lacey podcasts about renewable energy for Renewable Energy World and so he was visiting this Geothermal plant you see in the background
and the Blue Lagoon is the famous tourist trap that this Geothermal power plant feeds with its discharged effluent.
What I meant to say was that it was so nice and warm in the beneficial effluent of the Geothermal plant that Stephen Lacey of Renewable Energy World was caught in a tourist trap.
He was there to learn about renewable power from the experts who pioneered Geothermal power in Iceland. Let’s hope America does learn from Iceland.
It took Google blazing into Geothermal investment in EGS, (the deeper Geothermal source of power, with global potential) to get any Federal investment at all (or even a button on the DOE web page) from the current fossil-fueled Bush White House, but that should change in the Obama administration because unlike the other fuels that we get out of the ground, Geothermal power is not a fossil fuel and does not have carbon emissions.
Via the Renewable Energy World podcast
Photo credits: Stephen Lacey and Flikr users Bev and Steve, rianklong and frogdog*
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December 15th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Pretty sneaky, Susan! I’ve met Stephen Lacy before, he’s a good guy and the podcast is excellent.
December 15th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
That sure looks refreshing, and all of it powered by Earth-friendly thermal energy, no less. I’ve heard nothing but good things about the overall energy policies in Iceland and everyone I know who has stopped there talks about how clean the country is, compared to most other places. I’d also like to think the US and other industrialized nations could learn from this example, but doesn’t the production of geothermal power require natural features of the landscape to be present before building a power plant?
December 15th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Yeah, Timothy, podcasts like his (used to be Renewable Energy Access) will keep me going on my vacation – can’t imagine surviving without a computer for a halfmonth -
December 16th, 2008 at 12:02 am
True, Vernita – there have been lots of new geothermal projects being started since January but they are mostly in the Pacific Rim states (but also, surprisingly, Florida.) And Tibet leads the world in MW installed – I don’t see it as a volcanic Pacific Rim type place…
45 will be in Nevada, 21 in California, 11 in Oregon, Idaho and Utah will have 6 each, 5 in Alaska, a few for Arizona and Hawaii, Washington, Colorado, Wyoming.
But that is traditional geothermal: wait till Google’s investment yields some results – EGS is different – because it drills deeper it will an energy source that is available everywhere.
June 27th, 2009 at 10:08 am
Useful content:) Will visit again,