Posts from March 14, 2024

• Water is life. It’s also energy — whether you like dams or hate them
  The rain and snow that have drenched California and much of the American West over the last few months — at least relative to some of the hellishly dry years we’ve gotten recently — are a blessing not just for water supplies, but for energy.
• U.S. Geothermal Capacity Set To Grow by 1,900% by 2050
  The U.S. Department of Energy has invested $60 million in funding for three enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) projects.
• What do wind turbines mean for US property values?
  Wind turbines have been the target of wild misinformation from Donald Trump’s lies that they kill whales to pseudomedical claims about “wind turbine syndrome”.
• Expanding the bull’s eye of solar development on public lands
  Proposed changes to the US Bureau of Land Management’s Western Solar Plan would clear the way for large solar energy projects to be built across vast tracts of public lands in 11 western states. The proposed amount of land available to the solar industry ranges between 8 acres and 55 million acres, depending on the […]
• Renovated Microsoft Campus Set to Use Geothermal Energy to Heat/Cool Millions of Sq Ft. of Office Space
  It’s been four years now, but Microsoft’s Redmond campus modernization is almost finished. The massive 72-acre rebuild includes dozens of hopefully planet-saving designs and features, but none are more impressive than the Geothermal Energy Center (TEC).

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