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"Residents in the German town of Geretsried have long wanted to run their
buildings with clean heat and electricity from geothermal energy instead of
fossil fuels.
Their hopes were dashed about 15 years ago when a drilling company couldn’t
find enough hot water close to the surface to be profitable using traditional
geothermal technology. That basically left them with fossil gas.
“We gave up. We had big hopes,” recalled First Mayor of Geretsried Michael
Müller.
Today the next generation of geothermal companies is trying to succeed where
previous efforts failed.
They don’t rely on hot water close to the surface, but instead use techniques
developed in the oil and gas industry to drill deep and extract heat from dry,
hot rock.
One of them, Eavor, is starting up its first commercial power plant in
Geretsried — turning the tiny town of about 26,000 people, south of Munich,
into a proving ground for the future of geothermal energy.
Can technology like this be scaled and really make a difference for the future
of the planet?
The International Energy Agency thinks so."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
