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]]> By: David Levy http://climateinc.org/2009/12/unleashing-exxon/comment-page-1/#comment-127 David Levy Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:17:10 +0000 http://climateinc.org/?p=384#comment-127 You're right, geothermal is not the only short-term prospect. I think I'm suffering from post Brokenhagen blues. I was thinking reliable baseload power. Wind has its intermittency problems, maxes out around 20% of the grid, though that could change with advanced storage and transmission. I'm more pessimistic about biomass - local co-firing of wood waste is cost effective but limited in scale, and biofuels are for transportation, have a long way to go technologically, compete with food, soak up the water resources, etc. You’re right, geothermal is not the only short-term prospect. I think I’m suffering from post Brokenhagen blues. I was thinking reliable baseload power. Wind has its intermittency problems, maxes out around 20% of the grid, though that could change with advanced storage and transmission. I’m more pessimistic about biomass – local co-firing of wood waste is cost effective but limited in scale, and biofuels are for transportation, have a long way to go technologically, compete with food, soak up the water resources, etc.

]]> By: Tom Konrad http://climateinc.org/2009/12/unleashing-exxon/comment-page-1/#comment-126 Tom Konrad Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:56:12 +0000 http://climateinc.org/?p=384#comment-126 "geothermal power, the only other prospect for short-term renewable energy" - what ever happened to biomass and wind? Besides, the project you refer to is an enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) project, which is not a short-term hope... conventional geothermal is small scale, but already here, while EGS is a research project, but has the potential to scale. “geothermal power, the only other prospect for short-term renewable energy” – what ever happened to biomass and wind?

Besides, the project you refer to is an enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) project, which is not a short-term hope… conventional geothermal is small scale, but already here, while EGS is a research project, but has the potential to scale.

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