Hot Rocks for Electricity
December 9th, 2005 | by ka edong |The Philippines, New Zealand, Japan are among a few countries which already use commercial volumes of geothermal energy. The existing system uses steam from underground reservoirs and springs.
In Australia, there is a group planning to generate steam from hot rocks found 4.5km underground.
Idea is: pump water down unto the hot rocks then channel the resulting steam to geothermal powerplants.
This is a renewable source of energy referred to as Hot Dry Rock (HDR) geothermal energy.
It takes a “geological freak” for HDR to provide this new and developing energy source.
The Philippines is a “political freak”. Do you think we’d be able to channel Manila’s hot headed rallyists and politicians towards geothermal energy for our country?
C’mon, let’s put your hot heads to the test.
ka edong
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