The Hell’s Kitchen project in Imperial County, California, has attracted attention because it brings together two ambitions in one place. Controlled Thermal Resources is building a facility that would generate geothermal electricity while also extracting lithium from the same brine. The plan is to deliver 25,000 tons per year of … [continued]
Indonesia has taken a bold and likely problematic step with the announcement of its first, early stage regulatory approval for a nuclear power project. Thorcon International, a Singapore-based developer of molten salt reactors, has received permission from Indonesia’s regulator to evaluate a site for a demonstration plant on Kelasa Island. … [continued]
At the end of my engagement with TenneT, the Netherlands’ transmission system operator, who I assisted with 2050 scenario planning for their target grid, I had the opportunity to sit down with a couple of members of the workshops to discuss our findings. What follows is a lightly edited transcript … [continued]
Did Interior Secretary Doug Burgum miss the memo? Everyone else knows that today’s energy storage technology can absorb large amounts wind and solar energy, and tuck them away for later use.
Carbon mineralization plays a key role in the new “Mammoth” direct air carbon capture project in Iceland, a collaboration between Climework, Carbfix and ON Power.
Faster, cheaper, better: Next-generation geothermal energy systems are poised to compete against conventional power plants for baseload electricity generation.
In his State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 28, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. reiterated his administration’s commitment to strengthening and increasing renewable energy in the Philippines’ energy mix, targeting an additional 35% utilization by 2030. “When it comes to energy, renewable energy is the way forward,” the … [continued]
The US startup Quaise Energy is introducing a powerful gyrotron to the global geothermal industry, capable of ablating through solid rock like a Horta.
New Study Demonstrates Efficient Performance—Even on Frozen Alaska Soils New energy storage research from NREL, a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory, has demonstrated a way to store and reuse heat underground to meet the heating demands of cold regions like Alaska. Published on June 17 in the journal Energy & Buildings, the … [continued]
The Icelandic firm VAXA Technologies has perfected a modular, sustainable, energy efficient indoor aquaculture system for producing Spirulina algae.
