By Robert Safuto on Nov 27, 2009 in Opinion | View Comments
During his Presidential campaign President Barack Obama pledged, “…to transform our entire economy – from our cars and our fuels to our factories and our buildings.” In the last few months President Obama’s administration has made good on that pledge by unlocking billions of dollars in government coffers to benefit companies developing clean energy technologies in [...]
By Robert Safuto on Sep 29, 2009 in News | View Comments
About a year ago we mentioned that Google was investing in an enhanced geothermal energy company called AltaRock Energy. In fact, both Google and the U.S. Department of Energy made significant investments in AltaRock’s plan to drill deep into dry but hot caverns in Northern California in a bid to, “…create an EGS reservoir that [...]
By Robert Safuto on Aug 25, 2008 in Investments | View Comments
Last week Google.org announced their latest round of clean energy investments which are geared towards the development of unconventional geothermal technology. A total of about 11 million dollars will be invested across two companies and a university in order to lower the cost, improve the technical feasibility and expand research in the area of Enhanced [...]
By Robert Safuto on Nov 22, 2007 in News | View Comments
KQED Radio has produced an interesting audio segment on geothermal technology titled Geothermal Heats Up. It is definitely worth a listen.
By Robert Safuto on Nov 21, 2007 in Video | View Comments
This video shows how geothermal technology can be leveraged to provide a source of clean, reliable energy. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video