Grist talks to Google.org climate and energy head Dan Reicher about geothermal 2

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   amazingdrx Posted 3:13 am
   27 Aug 2008

   Great!You won't see an interview like that on mass media.  Fine work indeed.
   Thanks for asking about water use, good question.  The other questions are eathquakes, rocks cooling over time, so the holes need to be moved every few years, and escaped, sulfide laden warer vapor codensing in ground water, contaminating aquifers.
   It's great to see where Google is heading.  I think they are bypassing the most promising areas of investment, biogas/organic fertilizer, superconducting electrojagnetic energy storage, smart grid technology, solar PV/heat cogeneration, and ground source heating/cooling.
   Google you need some advice from the Grist crew of contributors.
   
   http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

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   JSolar Posted 8:24 am
   28 Aug 2008

   But Not There Yet - Not Even CloseBeing a former head of the U.S. DOE's Renewable Energy R&D efforts, Dan should have mentioned that this technology won't be, in the estimate of virtually ALL researchers and other public and private stakeholders, commercially attractive for decades.  There is no way it's price of producing electricity is below that from photovoltaics for the vast majority of possible sites.

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