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Hot rocks rockin'
Geothermal power: a core climate solution |
Joseph Romm |
24 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| While wind and solar get the media attention of a sexy starlet, good old geothermal power is treated like an aging character actor. But geothermal energy is, in fact, sizzling hot these days. Big-time investors from Warren Buffet to Goldman Sachs to Morgan Stanley to Google have begun investing: In 2007, private equity firms invested more than $400 million in geothermal energy, which is derived from hot water under the Earth's surface and can be used for sp ... |
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| Topics: energy, geothermal power, investing, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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