Comments on: 450 Geothermal Projects In Development

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 19:02:00 +0000

I know, it’s very sad. We wrote about the studies showing the stunning amount of geothermal potential in WV. It’s been disappointing that we haven’t heard anything since. I think I heard that, while there’s a lot of potential, it’s not very easy to tap geothermal (but that may be wrong). And, surely, there are vested energy interests there who have no inclination in letting it go forward.

By: Monte McKenzie

Monte McKenzie — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:46:00 +0000

WV has more coal, but we are better off leaving it in the ground and mining our geothermal hot spot in eastern WV insted!
A few years ago people started to ask why the gas and oil wells drilled along the eastern WV border were hoter than those drilled in other oil producing areas and then, Texas Christian University, sent a team to map the hot wells and their report stated that WV did have serious geothermal energy option, and that it could well provide electricty to most of the eastern USA.
That was several years ago and to date there has been no development just a further study by WVUniversity which seems to be as dead as last friday’s fish leftovers. No state needs clean energy more than WV as almost all of the power used by WV is coal generated and from mountain top vains that perminatly distroy and polute vast areas of my beautiful state.
Please publish something in your publication to broaden this info so the coal industry can’t twist WV politions arms to keep this from development by WV for the people of WV as a Publicly owned and managed state industry!

By: Marshall Harris

Marshall Harris — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 23:21:00 +0000

Agreed.

By: jburt56

jburt56 — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:18:00 +0000

Geothermal needs more development so that we don’t have to listen to “when the sun doesn’t shine or the wind doesn’t blow.”