Google to Invest 10 Million in Alternative Geothermal Energy
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Google to Invest 10 Million in Alternative Geothermal Energy
Sort by Daily Kos (Free subscription) - 08/24/2008
The philanthropic arm of commercial search engine giant Google announced it will invest 10.25 million dollars in a variant of Enhanced Geothermal Systems , or EGS. Even the late night Republican pizza partiers might like this one; they can literally drill all the way to hell and back ! The technology differs from "traditional" geothermal in that rather than exploiting existing wells of earthbound...
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Google Drills $10.25M into Geothermal
Sort by Earth2Tech (Free subscription) - 08/19/2008
Google’s gotten all steamed up on its quest to make renewable energy cheaper than coal and today has announced $10.25 million in investments in geothermal technologies. Specifically, the money is going towards a technology known as “enhanced geothermal systems,” an approach that doesn’t require existing steam vents or subterranean water sources (check out the video [...]
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Google Goes Geothermal With New Clean Energy Investments
Sort by Environmental Capital (Free subscription) - 08/19/2008
Jessica E. Vascellaro reports: The search engine's philanthropic arm, Google.org, is investing $10.25 million in a pair of companies working on enhanced geothermal systemsbasically running water through hot rocks to get steam for electricity. It's the latest push in Google's plan to develop renewable energy that's cheaper than coal, and which has already led to $30 [...]
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Google.org Visualizes US Geothermal Data in Google Earth
Sort by Google Earth Blog (Free subscription) - 08/21/2008
Google's environmentally focused non-profit has produced an excellent Google Earth visualization which shows information on geothermal energy available in the US. It's part of a web site Google has produced on Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) which is being touted as a possible answer to long-term electrical energy needs on a vast scale - a Googol even. The resulting KML file is really excellent....
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Enough geothermal energy to power the globe -- now that's hot!
Sort by Official google.org Blog (Free subscription) - 08/19/2008
Today, as part of our Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal initiative , Google.org announced more than $10 million in investments and grants in Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) technology. EGS expands the potential of traditional geothermal energy by orders of magnitude. The traditional geothermal approach relies on finding naturally occurring pockets of steam or hot water. The EGS process, by comparison,...
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Google is Investing in Geothermal Energy
Sort by The Speculist (Free subscription) - 08/22/2008
Geothermal energy is basically limitless but it has, until recently, only been available in certain geologically active regions. New technology (called Enhanced Geothermal Systems or EGS) will make it possible to produce geothermal basically anywhere:...
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Google Foundation invests $10 million in advanced geothermal
Sort by Politics in the Zeros (Free subscription) - 08/20/2008
The Google Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Google, is big on finding new ways to get low-cost renewable energy. One of their main interests is in advanced geothermal, and their blog details their new investments and grants.
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Google.org Hot For Geothermal Power
Sort by Peak Energy (Free subscription) - 08/20/2008
Google.org has generated plenty of publicity with its recent announcement about investing in geothermal energy companies - Enough geothermal energy to power the globe -- now that's hot! . Today, as part of our Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal initiative, Google.org announced more than $10 million in investments and grants in Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) technology. EGS expands the potential...
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‘Hot Rocks’ could Change the Tune for Alternative Energy
Sort by ScribeMedia (Free subscription) - 08/19/2008
It’s the latest step in Google’s efforts to develop alternative energy: a $10.25 million investment in an energy technology called Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS). Rather than extracting heat from the ground a few hundred feet down as traditional geothermal systems do, EGS goes several kilometers deep into the hot rock under the Earth. Extracting 2% of the heat under [...]
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Wind Shmind: Google Invests 10 Million in Geothermal
Sort by Green Bloggers Digest (Free subscription) - 08/19/2008
The investment would go toward so-called Enhanced Geothermal Systems . Whereas conventional geothermal technology relies on finding naturally occurring pockets of steam and hot water in the ground, EGS works by injecting regular unheated water into “hot basement rock” deep below the planet’s surface. This heated water is the forced through and rises to the surface where it can be mined for all its...
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Google Thinks It Has Found A Geothermal Winner
Sort by The Sietch Blog (Free subscription) - 08/19/2008
With it’s stated goal of making renewable energy cheaper than coal energy Google.org (note the .org) is at it again. It has announced $10.25 million in investments in a breakthrough energy technology called Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS). Today’s announcement also includes funding for research on next-generation geothermal resource mapping, EGS information tools, and [...]
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Google Invests in Enhanced Geothermal System
Sort by In the Agora (Free subscription) - 08/27/2008
Google.org, the philanthropic wing of the company, announced last week that it will invest $10 million into Enhanced Geothermal Systems, a promising and overlooked alternative energy. As far as what's needed to make EGS a part of our energy infrastructure,...
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Will Geothermal Energy Power Our Solar System?
Sort by Colony Worlds (Free subscription) - 09/03/2008
Regardless whether one intends to dwell upon a dusty world, or an icy one, living on another planet, moon, or dwarf planet is going to require energy. Without a dependable power source, off world settlements will become nothing but fantasy, regulated to the imaginations of Star Wars , Star Trek and Serenity . While a few worlds such as Mercury , Luna (aka the Moon) and Saturn's Titan are blessed with...
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Google invests $10 million in geothermal energy technology
Sort by 901am (Free subscription) - 08/19/2008
At least Google cares as its philanthropic arm Google.org, announced $10.25 million in investments in a breakthrough energy technology called Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS). EGS expands the potential of geothermal energy by orders of magnitude. The traditional geothermal approach relies on finding naturally occurring pockets of steam and hot water. The EGS process, by comparison, [...]
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Google to Invest $10 Mil in Enhanced Geothermal
Sort by Thoughts on Global Warming (Free subscription) - 08/19/2008
Google ( TGW ) - Google.org announced today that it will invest $10 million in Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS). EGS differs from traditional geothermal in that it does not exploit existing wells of steam, but rather uses hot rocks far below the surface to heat water to generate steam. Google invested in 3 different companies: AltaRock Energy Potter Drilling Southern Methodist University Geothermal...
