10 reasons why to support geothermal energy, published by GEA

In a recent supporting document, the US Geothermal Energy Association (GEA) has announced ten reasons to answer the question "Why (supports geothermal energy)". There are clearly several issues focused on the United States, and comprehensive reasoning should provide a good basis for many of us to promote geothermal debate. I thank Dan Jennejohn and GEA's team for writing this document.

Geothermal power generation is a reliable power: because it provides a basic load power supply with small to large scale extensibility, a major discussion of utility scale geothermal power generation adding reliability to the power system .

Geothermal energy creates employment and stimulates economic growth: As this document provides a good overview of the various tasks involved in geothermal power generation, geothermal is a good job that may not be as annoying as other industries Employment around the factory and economic development

3. Geothermal Energy Promotes the Security of the State: In many oil dependence countries, one of the reasons for geothermal research in many countries including the United States in the 1980s began as the problem worsened is. Energy independence is a key word, it does not depend on external energy sources.

4. Geothermal Energy is Environmentally Friendly: A comparison of her life cycle emissions problem and global land use provides adequate justification for geothermal reasons.

5. Geothermal Energy Increases External Exports: This is quite an American view, but it shows how the geothermal energy department actually exports one of renewable energy technologies rather than imports . .

6. Geothermal assistance for regional economic development: As mentioned in the above research, the geothermal power plant creates a good economic environment as a whole, draws energy-intensive related industries close to the factory and promotes regional development did.

7. Geothermal is a versatile energy source. The main argument here is that geothermal energy supplies not only electricity for various applications but also thermal energy.

Geothermal is very important economically. In this regard, the total cost of purchasing energy is mentioned, and the geothermal power plant supplies substantially low-cost renewable energy for long-term fixed electricity price with virtually no fuel cost. It is obviously a different word, but it usually applies to almost all countries.

9. Geothermal uses humanized and friendly technology. Learning and maintaining the actual technical capabilities of the plant is not too difficult to increase the chances of local employees when the plant is built.

10. Geothermal energy is widely available: Here, all US resource estimates are derived from various geothermal applications throughout the United States. This varies from country to country, but in general geothermal is overflowing. For any purpose, this is only a problem if it is economically and economically achievable.

According to the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), in the last annual survey in March 2012, the geothermal capacity in the United States increased by 5%, or 14.705 megawatts. This growth comes from seven geothermal projects which started production in 2012. GEA also changed the installed capacity in 2011 to an estimated 128 MW, and the current US geothermal capacity is 3,386 MW. Geothermal energy is thought to be renewable because the expected heat extraction is small compared to the Earth's heat. The internal calorific value of the earth is 1031 Joules (3 × 1015 hours per hour), which is about 100 billion times the world's annual energy consumption (2010). Approximately 20% of this is due to the residual heat of the planet, and the rest is due to the high level of radioactive decay rate in the past. Natural heat flow is unbalanced, the earth slowly cools down on the geological time scale

In a recent supporting document, the US Geothermal Energy Association (GEA) has announced ten reasons to answer the question "Why (supports geothermal energy)". There are clearly several issues focused on the United States, and comprehensive reasoning should provide a good basis for many of us to promote geothermal debate. I thank Dan Jennejohn and GEA's team for writing this document. Geothermal energy creates employment and stimulates economic growth: As this document provides a good overview of the various tasks involved in geothermal power generation, geothermal is a good job that may not be as annoying as other industries Employment around the factory and economic development