Technische Universität MünchenDec 9, 2022

Researchers presented an assessment that #DeepGeothermal energy in southern Bavaria could meet as much as 40% of the Bavarian #heating demand: http://go.tum.de/254008

#sustainability #renewableenergy
📷Geothermie-Allianz Bayern

Mathematically speaking, geothermal energy could meet 40 percent of Bavaria's heating needs

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) see major potential for the expansion of deep geothermal energy in Bavaria. In its Geothermal Energy Master Plan analysis the research group Geothermal-Alliance Bavaria looks at possibilities for providing geologically disadvantaged regions in the State of Bavaria with sustainable district heating using long-distance heat transport. This is the first time that the technical potential of the hydrothermal geothermal energy in southern Bavaria has been analyzed. The study was commissioned by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy, which recently published the report.

PeteApr 27, 2022

Solar and wind continue to drop in $/kilowatt hour, but we will always need generators that fill the gap when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow. I've been interested in some promising trials by an MIT spinoff company, Quaise Energy, that has improved conventional and laser drilling to allow deep geothermal, which theoretically is quite promising. More than SMR, this seems like something that could be feasible and scalable.

Article: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/03/18/science/an-effort-rid-world-fossil-fuels-an-mit-spinoff-plans-dig-deepest-holes-earth/
#DeepGeothermal #Quaise

In an effort to ease fossil-fuel reliance, an MIT spinoff plans to dig the deepest holes on Earth

A firm says it has figured out how to drill as deep as 12 miles into the Earth’s crust to capture the steam and use it to run turbines at power plants.

The Boston Globe