Image: Dandelion Energy Over the next two years, homebuilder Lennar is outfitting more than 1,500 new Colorado homes with Dandelion Energy’s geothermal systems in one of the largest residential geothermal rollouts in the US. The big draw for homeowners is lower energy bills and cleaner heating and cooling. Dandelion claims Lennar homeowners with geothermal systems … Continue reading “1,500 new Colorado homes will come with geothermal heat pumps”
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The tests so far amount to the karate demonstration where someone chops through a stack of two-by-fours: Most impressive but not a commercially viable way to chop wood. The next step is obvious — Quaise needs to get out and drill into the earth. That’s coming soon. Quaise obtained a test site in north Houston where it can … Continue reading “The smell of toasted rock could spell victory for geothermal energy”
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Canary Media’s Electrified Life column shares real-world tales, tips, and insights to demystify what individuals can do to shift their homes and lives to clean electric power. Micah Parkin wanted to quash her home’s carbon pollution to help fight climate change. So she took a familiar step among climate-inclined homeowners: She got a heat pump — just … Continue reading “Geothermal heat pumps are crazy efficient. Should you get one?”
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One of the most promising new forms of clean electricity just got a significant boost. Earlier today at a U.S. Department of Energy workshop, next-generation geothermal energy startup Sage Geosystems announced that it had agreed to supply Meta, the owner of Facebook, with 150 megawatts of geothermal power. The goal is for the first phase of the project … Continue reading “Sage Geosystems and Meta sign 150MW geothermal power agreement”
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The first well, which KMT aims to drill in 2026, will mainly be geared toward studying and measuring magma itself. Scientists will place sensors directly into the magma and use the data to develop methods for detecting pools of liquid rock in other places. The goal is to find the hot pockets without the drills … Continue reading “Magma and hot rocks: Iceland seeks the future of geothermal energy”