Can Geothermal Replace Coal for Baseload Power?

Thomas R. Blakeslee The Clearlight Foundation

99.9% of the Earth’s Volume is Hot Enough To Boil Water

Geothermal Power is Renewable and Economical Today

World’s First Geothermal Power Plant: Still Producing 2800 MW!

Most Geothermal to date use Accidents of Nature

EGS Geothermal: Water Injection is Designed-in

Geodynamics’ first Hot Dry Rocks (HDR) Power Plant

Low-Temperature Binary SystemEfficient, Clean & Reliable

Inexpensive Power Generation with a Modified Air Conditioner

From a 74°C Geothermal Well! UTCPower

Combined Heat & Power (CHP)

Fuel Costs are ExplodingCoal Uranium

The Hidden Costs of Coal Power• Health Care Costs (asthma, autism, cancer)

• Global Warming (storms, heat, floods)

• Destruction of Forests & Lakes (acid rain)

• Destruction of Fisheries (mercury)

• Mining Devastation of the Landscape

• Oil use in Mining & Transporting

• Subsidies paid for by your taxes

• Future Cleanup of Toxic Waste Ponds

8 Million kilowatt-hours/year (~ $500,000 worth) from:

• 1 Megawatt of Geothermal Power

• 1.27 Megawatts of Coal Power

• 3 Megawatts of Wind Power

• 5 Megawatts of Solar Power

Deep Drilling Costs DominateUsing Oil Drilling Technology

Linear Drilling Cost using Hydrothermal Spallation

U.S. Patent #5771984 (Now in lab development by Potter Drilling.)

Geothermal Power Generation Megawatts Installed (2005)

USA 2544 Philippines 1931 Mexico 953 Indonesia 797 Italy 790 Japan 535 New Zealand 435 Iceland 322 Costa Rica 163 El Salvador 151 Kenya 127 Russia (Kamchatka) 79 Nicaragua 77 Guatemala 33 China 28 

The Wealth of Nations

The Age of Fuel The Age of Free Energy