Topic: Clean Energy From Filthy Water
Main Points:
Main Points:
- Santa Rosa and Calpine Corporation, an energy company are partners in the world's largest geothermal wastewater-to-power project.
- Santa Rosa Geysers Recharge Project pumps 12 million gallons of treated wastewater through a pipeline to a mountaintop 40 miles from the city. Using urban effluent to generate clean energy, improving life not only for humans but also for fish.
- Injects it down into an aquifer. Hot rocks boil the water into steam, which is piped to the surface to drive electricity-generating turbines.
- A sister project in Lake County recycles 8 million gallons of wastewater a day. Together, installations generate 200 megawatts of electricity-equivalent to the output of a modest-size power plant without discharging greenhouse gases or pollutants in the atmosphere.
- Technique could supply 10% of nation's electricity by 2050. Running far to San Fransisco.
- To succeed, plans to expand drilling here to start elsewhere will have to take into account small earthquakes from extracting steam.
- Other communities are exploring various styles of geothermal energy. Partnership of Calpine and Santa Rosa and Lake county fixed problems of depletion of underground resources, plants running out of steam, and to find a way to dispose groundwater while meeting state environmental requirements.
- Solution was to move wastewater to where it was wanted. The first recycled-water-to-electricity project in Lake County and Santa Rosa are poised to expand.
- A steep single-lane road leads to the pinnacle which is dominated by a dark-green three-story tank no different form any municipal water tank except for its contents: one million gallons of wastewater.
- The water has been processed in three stages along the way: physical treatment in sedimentation tanks to remove grease, oil and impurities.
Author's Points:
The author purpose about uising urban effluent to generate clean energy, improving life not only for humans but also for fish. Injects it down into an aquifer. Hot rocks boil the water into steam, which is piped to the surface to drive electricity-generating turbines. A sister project in Lake County recycles 8 million gallons of wastewater a day. Together, installations generate 200 megawatts of electricity-equivalent to the output of a modest-size power plant without discharging greenhouse gases or pollutants in the atmosphere. Technique could supply 10% of nation's electricity by 2050. Running far to San Fransisco. To succeed, plans to expand drilling here to start elsewhere will have to take into account small earthquakes from extracting steam.
The author purpose about uising urban effluent to generate clean energy, improving life not only for humans but also for fish. Injects it down into an aquifer. Hot rocks boil the water into steam, which is piped to the surface to drive electricity-generating turbines. A sister project in Lake County recycles 8 million gallons of wastewater a day. Together, installations generate 200 megawatts of electricity-equivalent to the output of a modest-size power plant without discharging greenhouse gases or pollutants in the atmosphere. Technique could supply 10% of nation's electricity by 2050. Running far to San Fransisco. To succeed, plans to expand drilling here to start elsewhere will have to take into account small earthquakes from extracting steam.
My thought's:
My thought's after reading this article is that I believe that there should be more geothermal plants around the world. It shouldn't be one in every city, because the more geothermal plants, the more earthquakes it can cause. A way to solve this is to not have the piping underground. If the piping isn't underground, there is less risk of earthquakes. If there is a less risk of earthquakes, I think there should be more geothermal plants that benefit us and the environment as well. Although the mountains and the view would look ugly, I think it is for the best of humanity and the environment.
My thought's after reading this article is that I believe that there should be more geothermal plants around the world. It shouldn't be one in every city, because the more geothermal plants, the more earthquakes it can cause. A way to solve this is to not have the piping underground. If the piping isn't underground, there is less risk of earthquakes. If there is a less risk of earthquakes, I think there should be more geothermal plants that benefit us and the environment as well. Although the mountains and the view would look ugly, I think it is for the best of humanity and the environment.
So What?
Saves electricity
Says Who?
Dan Carlson
What if?
This isn't invented?
What this remind me of?
Windmill, Solar Panels, and the process to produced electricity.
Saves electricity
Says Who?
Dan Carlson
What if?
This isn't invented?
What this remind me of?
Windmill, Solar Panels, and the process to produced electricity.