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Can Geothermal Replace Coal for Baseload Power? Thomas R. Blakeslee The Clearlight Foundation

Can Geothermal Replace Coal for Baseload Power? Thomas R. Blakeslee The Clearlight Foundation. 99.9% of the Earth’s Volume is Hot Enough To Boil Water. Geothermal Power is Renewable and Economical Today. World’s First Geothermal Power Plant: Still Producing 2800 MW!.

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Can Geothermal Replace Coal for Baseload Power? Thomas R. Blakeslee The Clearlight Foundation

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  1. Can Geothermal Replace Coal for Baseload Power?Thomas R. Blakeslee The Clearlight Foundation

  2. 99.9% of the Earth’s Volume is Hot Enough To Boil Water

  3. Geothermal Power is Renewable and Economical Today

  4. World’s First Geothermal Power Plant: Still Producing 2800 MW!

  5. Most Geothermal to date use Accidents of Nature

  6. EGS Geothermal: Water Injection is Designed-in

  7. Geodynamics’ first Hot Dry Rocks (HDR) Power Plant

  8. Low-Temperature Binary SystemEfficient, Clean & Reliable

  9. Inexpensive Power Generation with a Modified Air Conditioner From a 74°C Geothermal Well! UTCPower

  10. Combined Heat & Power (CHP)

  11. Fuel Costs are ExplodingCoal Uranium

  12. The Hidden Costs of Coal Power • Health Care Costs (asthma, autism, cancer) • Global Warming (storms, heat, floods) • Destruction of Forests & Lakes (acid rain) • Destruction of Fisheries (mercury) • Mining Devastation of the Landscape • Oil use in Mining & Transporting • Subsidies paid for by your taxes • Future Cleanup of Toxic Waste Ponds

  13. 8 Million kilowatt-hours/year (~ $500,000 worth) from: • 1 Megawatt of Geothermal Power • 1.27 Megawatts of Coal Power • 3 Megawatts of Wind Power • 5 Megawatts of Solar Power

  14. Deep Drilling Costs DominateUsing Oil Drilling Technology

  15. Linear Drilling Cost using HydrothermalSpallationU.S. Patent #5771984 (Now in lab development by Potter Drilling.)

  16. Geothermal Power Generation Megawatts Installed (2005)

  17. The Wealth of NationsThe Age of Fuel The Age of Free Energy

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