In September 2023, MDN told you about a non-profit organization called Project InnerSpace, which was contacting public officials, academics, and oil and gas interests in Pennsylvania, pitching a transition from fossil fuel extraction to geothermal energy using the same workers and potentially, the same infrastructure (see Siren Song of Geothermal Calls to PA Conventional &…
Geothermal energy has been called the ‘redheaded stepchild’ of renewable energy. Lefties have a love/hate relationship with geothermal energy. Geothermal uses the same identical drilling rigs, drills the same holes in the ground, and even uses the same fracking technology used to drill shale oil and gas wells. But drilling and fracking for geothermal is…
On Monday, Meta, the company that owns Facebook, announced an agreement with a start-up called Sage Geosystems to develop up to 150 megawatts of an advanced type of geothermal energy to help power the tech giant’s expanding array of data centers. That is roughly enough electricity to power 70,000 homes. Sage will use (wait for…
You can’t read about energy in mainstream media these days without seeing multiple stories about geothermal energy and the big push to force-convert homes and businesses to use geothermal as a way of saving the planet from nasty/evil fossil fuels. Yet geothermal uses the same identical drilling rigs, drills the same holes in the ground,…
Only in the mind of twisted leftists does this make sense. New York State is energy-hungry. Yet our state “leaders” demand we begin to phase out the one source of energy that provides something like 90% of all energy in the state: Natural gas and oil. You have to replace all that energy somehow. The…
In September, MDN told you about a non-profit organization called Project InnerSpace, which has been reaching out to public officials, academics, and oil and gas interests in Pennsylvania, pitching a transition from fossil fuel extraction to geothermal energy using the same workers and potentially, the same infrastructure (see Siren Song of Geothermal Calls to PA…
Last November MDN told you about a research paper published by Penn State that says the state should look at repurposing old conventional oil and gas wells for use as geothermal energy sources (see Penn State Suggests Reusing Old O&G Wells for Geothermal Energy). The idea is to use some of the hundreds of thousands…
As far back as July 2021, MDN began to cover the issue of geothermal energy, which uses the same technology (drilling rigs, horizontal drilling) to drill holes in the ground to circulate and warm (or cool) water underground as a “green” energy source. Geothermal is an area of interest for Marcellus/Utica shale drillers as a…
We spotted a press release from an energy company that works in New York State called Dandelion Energy. (Interesting to name your company after a weed.) Dandelion is delighted with the leftists who rule in NY and are poised to enact a new law that allows drilling deep wells for geothermal systems (that Dandelion sells),…
Marcellus driller Northeast Natural Energy (NNE) has begun to drill a geothermal and carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) data collection well, all the way down to 15,000 below the surface (see WVU & NNE Drilling Test Well for CCS, Geothermal Energy). The test well is being drilled near the Morgantown Industrial Park in cooperation with…
During the second week of May, Marcellus driller Northeast Natural Energy will begin to drill a geothermal and carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) data collection well–all the way down to 15,000 below the surface. The test well is being done in cooperation with (under the direction of) West Virginia University and the U.S. Dept. of…
Here’s a novel idea. What if you take some of the hundreds of thousands of abandoned oil and natural gas wells dotting the countryside in Pennsylvania and run tubing into those wells, circulating water through the tubing, and transfer Mom Earth’s natural heat to the water and then use the heated water heat homes and…
We recently spotted an article in the Wall Street Journal about the prospect of combining horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (collectively called “fracking”) with geothermal energy. The article claims fracking could be used to generate energy with “no carbon emissions.” Green nirvana! At last!! But is this really possible? Is it actually economical? Let’s take…
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Miracle of miracles, President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill was passed and signed into law by the President last Friday. Somehow, the Republicans got out of their own way to unite and pass it. There’s lots NOT TO like about the bill, but there is also lots TO like. And remember, this is just…
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