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Contact to produce food-grade CO2 from Ohaaki geothermal plant, NZ

ThinkGeoEnergy

Contact Energy (Contact) has developed a way to capture the small amount of naturally occurring carbon dioxide released during geothermal power generation at the Ohaaki geothermal site near Taupo, New Zealand. MW Te Huka Unit 3 geothermal power station.

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New tool models viability of closed-loop geothermal systems

Envirotec Magazine

Closed-loop geothermal systems: The cost of drilling would need to decrease significantly to hit cost targets, according to the study (Illustration by Ray Johnson/Sandia National Laboratories). Web tool looks belowground for an economically viable renewable energy source. Text by DOE/Sandia National Laboratories.

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Polpis Systems develops simulator for cost-effective supercritical geothermal

ThinkGeoEnergy

The output of this effort provides a pathway for de-risking the capabilities needed to make supercritical geothermal competitive in the near term by quantifying the critical parameters. Polpis Systems had previously published an open proposal for a geothermal power generation system that uses supercritical CO2 (sCO2) as the working fluid.

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Hungary publishes national strategy to double geothermal output by 2030

ThinkGeoEnergy

Geothermal accounts for 6.5% There is currently only one geothermal power facility in Tura with an installed capacity of 2.7 PJ is used for energy. of the country’s gross heat production and is available in 11 settlements. Széchenyi Medicinal Bath in Budapest, Hungary (source: flickr/ Alex E.

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'Like an Amazon pick-up package service': Inside plans to transform an Icelandic port into a CO2 storage hub for European pollution

Business Green

The firm also has a slightly leftfield plan to turn an industrial port in the south-east of the country into a large-scale CO2 terminal that would accept waste gas shipped from industrial and power plants across Europe and turn it into stone, storing it safely underground. You capture your CO2 yourself and we come and pick it up."

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Next Prime Minister to face legal requirement to beef up Net Zero Strategy

Business Green

As such, the court order presents a major challenge to the next Prime Minister, who will be under immediate pressure to both strengthen the UK's net zero plans and deliver a more ambitious package to help households cope with soaring energy bills this winter.

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Green Dividend Stocks: The Comfort Food of Investing in a Sustainable Future

Hydrogen Fuel News

Let’s unravel this financial package together and discover why investing your dollars into these environmentally-friendly entities may potentially make your financial portfolio greener too. Companies in solar, wind, hydrogen and geothermal power are reaching stages of maturity where they generate consistent cash flows.