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In my last entry I took a page from the Weather Makers, and cited Tim Flannery’s observation that one of the obstacles to decisive action on climate change is that the whole idea of global warming has become a cliché even before it has been understood.
My example of a cliché was the Kyoto protocol, which people talk about without really paying attention to. Kyoto is largely just a symbol of our feelings about global warming, rather than an indication that we’re ...
Tyler Hamilton of the Star writes in his blog, Clean Break, about the rapid growth of industrial-scale geothermal power generation. He quotes from a new report from the Geothermal Energy Association:
Toronto Star: Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star: Tyler Hamilton
Google announced that it will invest “hundreds of millions” in developing alternative energy sources, including solar thermal, wind and geothermal in an effort to replace fossil fuels and fight climate change.
Toronto Star: Tyler Hamilton
Source: GLOBE-Net
“Geothermal energy is clean, quiet, virtually inexhaustible and able to meet the world’s annual electricity and heating needs many times over with little impact on the climate or the environment. In many jurisdictions, geothermal energy is emerging as a reliable and affordable alternative to fossil fuels. This fourth article in the GLOBE-Net series on renewable energy discusses the dark horse of renewables.”
Ottawa is being asked for additional support for the existing $1.5 billion dollar ecoEnergy program, which is expected to run out of money by 2009. The program offers a 1-cent-per-kilowatt-hour incentive for those building alternative energy such as green hydro, wind, geothermal, tidal or biomass projects.
Triple Pundit
Geothermal energy is attracting a lot of long overdue attention recently. Gathering in Reykjavik last week officials from Australia, Iceland and the U.S. signed a charter to establish the International Partnership for Geothermal Technology.