August 26, 2010

Chemetall produces lithium carbonate to customers in a wide range... [More]

July 13, 2010

A promising discovery by a geothermal energy company could boost use of the renewable source in southwest Nevada, power thousands of homes and create jobs.

In May 2010, Sierra Geothermal determined temperature at the bottom of a well drilled at the company's Alum project near Silver Peak, Nev., was hot enough for commercial-sized geothermal energy production - measured as 147 degrees Celsius (297 degrees Fahrenheit). [More]

June 18, 2010

As more budget-savvy Americans turn to renewable energy to power their homes and cut expenses, business is booming for small companies such as Earth River Geothermal, Inc. [More]

May 24, 2010

Superintendent Tad Everett had two priorities when deciding on a new system to replace the aging oil-based boiler heating and cooling systems for the seven schools in his district: improving learning environments and saving on energy.

“Once we began researching possibilities, it didn’t take us long to realize that our best option was geothermal energy,” says Everett.

With two geothermal systems installed and one under construction, northeastern Illinois’s Sterling Public School District is well on its way to achieving better learning environments and cutting energy costs. [More]

April 16, 2010

Chris Gearon’s 24-year old oil furnace was tired. What happened if the furnace died during the winter? [More]

April 16, 2010

America’s clean energy economy is expanding, and small businesses such as Evans Energy Development of Paola, Kan., are reaping the benefits as companies and homeowners switch to geothermal energy. [More]

April 15, 2010

When geothermal power companies began moving to northwestern Nevada’s Churchill County, each one seemed to bring an out of state workforce with them. [More]

April 9, 2010

An environmentally friendly geothermal heating and cooling system in Pennsylvania will save taxpayers $15,000 a year as part of a new fire substation that will decrease emergency response times. [More]

March 19, 2010

Ball State University is building America’s largest ground source district geothermal heating and cooling system. The new operation will save the school millions of dollars, slash greenhouse gases and create jobs.

The project will also “expand how America will define the use of geothermal technology on a district-wide scale,” and provide health benefits such as reducing asthma rates for Indiana residents, says Philip Sachtleben, Ball State’s associate vice president of governmental relations.

The system will cool and heat nearly 50 buildings on Ball State’s Muncie, Ind., campus, replace four coal-burning boilers and span more than 600 acres. The switch to geothermal will save the university $2.2 million in fuel costs and cut its carbon footprint in half. [More]

March 15, 2010

The 10 federal land organizations — including two national parks, six national forests and two national wildlife refuges — in the Greater Yellowstone Area comprise an entire ecosystem of their own. [More]

March 11, 2010

Connecticut Wells has gone through many changes since its inception in the 1960s. One of the most significant is its transformation into a thriving geothermal well-drilling business.

In the beginning, the small business drilled water wells throughout Connecticut. It was the main source of revenue for the company, “There was a big demand for many years but when building construction declined in the mid-80s, so did the demand for water wells,” says president Anthony Ganio. [More]

March 9, 2010

The heating and air conditioning in the new wing of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science will run on an unusual, subterranean heat source: the recycled wastewater rushing through the pipes below.

The museum could have proposed a standard ground-source heat pump system, one that taps into geothermal sources by drilling and installing numerous shallow wells over a large area, to provide a heat and cooling resource for the units. But instead, they’re planning to install an open-loop system that uses water circulating within the city’s municipal water system.

“That’s the unique piece about it,” says Dave Noel, vice president of operations and chief technology officer for the museum. “A traditional ground source heat field might cost two-thirds of the total costs of the whole system. In this case, if we can make this work, not only are the costs much cheaper, but we won’t require as much space.” [More]

February 22, 2010

Americans are seeing renewable energy sources put to use all around the country, and now some power plants are taking advantage of one source that rests deep within the Earth — geothermal energy. [More]

December 18, 2009

Of the handful of frontrunners in the scramble to become the nation’s first net-zero college campus, the Oregon Institute of Technology may be one of the most unique. [More]

November 23, 2009

Bernie Karl knows a gold mine when he sees one. In the 1970s, Bernie and his wife Connie moved to Alaska and mined gold in the frontier before eventually landing their dream job of running Chena Hot Springs Resort, just outside of Fairbanks. [More]