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MIT back ‘Heat Mining’ as energy source

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“A comprehensive new MIT-led study of the potential for geothermal energy within the United States has found that mining the huge amounts of heat that reside as stored thermal energy in the Earth’s hard rock crust could supply a substantial portion of the electricity the United States will need in the future, probably at competitive prices and with minimal environmental impact.”

The US is currently the worlds largest user of Geothermal energy with 2,300 megawatts of capacity.

See Also:
New Report Finds Huge Power Potential in Geothermal Resources

Slate article on heat mining

Written by Linda MacPhee-Cobb

January 26th, 2007 at 7:54 am

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