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OT Geothermal energy
On 21/10/2020 13:23, Chris Hogg wrote:
Been talked about for several decades. The Rosemanowes 'hot rocks' project in Cornwall in the 1970's was one such. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemanowes_Quarry Never came to anything, even though it was said the be the site in the UK with the highest heat flow in England at 120 milliwatts per square metre (which sounds rather small to me; if correct, perhaps it's not surprising nothing came of it). snipped Small scale use here... https://jubileepool.co.uk/pool-info/geothermal/ -- Cheers Clive |
OT Geothermal energy
On 21/10/2020 13:23, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 04:51:34 -0700 (PDT), harry wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZLo0-lwK1k But Iceland's total geothermal capacity is only 750MW, so they don't make much use of it themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothe...wer_in_Iceland They make a lot of use of it for heating and presumably don't use it more for electricity generation because they have even cheaper hydro power, pretty much everyone's favourite renewable. I don't think it is an indication of how much power they could generate economically from geothermal. |
OT Geothermal energy
On 21/10/2020 13:23, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 04:51:34 -0700 (PDT), harry wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZLo0-lwK1k Been talked about for several decades. The Rosemanowes 'hot rocks' project in Cornwall in the 1970's was one such. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemanowes_Quarry Never came to anything, even though it was said the be the site in the UK with the highest heat flow in England at 120 milliwatts per square metre (which sounds rather small to me; if correct, perhaps it's not surprising nothing came of it). There are a few other sites across the world, but mostly you need hot rock not too far below the surface, otherwise it becomes too expensive to exploit. Iceland is often given as an example, and great claims made for it and how the UK will benefit from an interconnector up to Iceland, which seems to have gone quite. But Iceland's total geothermal capacity is only 750MW, so they don't make much use of it themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothe...wer_in_Iceland CEGB were doing research on this in the 1970s from the Marchwood Engineering Labs, on the Solent. Conveniently, this region is another reasonable hot spot. IIRC there turned out to be two issues, I think the main ones was that the output would drop off significantly after ~ 50 years because you would have cooled off such a lot of rock by then, and the other was you lose something like half of the water that you pump down. I think that Marchwood were also looking at wave power (who remembers Salter's ducks?) and windmills. Prior to that they had quite a substantial rig looking into Magnetohydrodynamics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet...amic_generator |
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On 21/10/2020 12:51:34, harry wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZLo0-lwK1k Which often uses fracking type technology. I'm sure there will be even more complaints about tremors. |
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On 21/10/2020 14:30, newshound wrote:
On 21/10/2020 13:23, Chris Hogg wrote: On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 04:51:34 -0700 (PDT), harry wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZLo0-lwK1k Been talked about for several decades. The Rosemanowes 'hot rocks' project in Cornwall in the 1970's was one such. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemanowes_Quarry Never came to anything, even though it was said the be the site in the UK with the highest heat flow in England at 120 milliwatts per square metre (which sounds rather small to me; if correct, perhaps it's not surprising nothing came of it). There are a few other sites across the world, but mostly you need hot rock not too far below the surface, otherwise it becomes too expensive to exploit. Iceland is often given as an example, and great claims made for it and how the UK will benefit from an interconnector up to Iceland, which seems to have gone quite. But Iceland's total geothermal capacity is only 750MW, so they don't make much use of it themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothe...wer_in_Iceland CEGB were doing research on this in the 1970s from the Marchwood Engineering Labs, on the Solent. Conveniently, this region is another reasonable hot spot. IIRC there turned out to be two issues, I think the main ones was that the output would drop off significantly after ~ 50 years because you would have cooled off such a lot of rock by then, and the other was you lose something like half of the water that you pump down. There is this that works: https://www.engie.co.uk/energy/distr...y/southampton/ I think that Marchwood were also looking at wave power (who remembers Salter's ducks?) and windmills. Prior to that they had quite a substantial rig looking into Magnetohydrodynamics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet...amic_generator |
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