Lecture on Geothermal Energy
Sunday, August 2, 2015, 10:00am - 12:00noon MT
Salida Community Center, 305 F St (corner of 3rd and F), Salida, Colorado, United States
Gene Rush, retired geologist and now a Salida resident, will talk on “Geothermal Energy”. With mounting evidence of climate change associated with the use of petroleum-based energy products, the search for alternative energy sources continues. A vast amount of heat is trapped within the earth, and under the right conditions it can be tapped as an alternative source of clean and sustainable energy.
Resources of geothermal energy range from the shallow ground to hot water and hot rock found a few miles beneath the Earth's surface, and even deeper, down to the extremely high temperatures of molten rock called magma.
Mr. Rush’s talk will examine the earth from a geothermal perspective, the distribution of geothermal energy in the earth, geothermal sites and areas of interest in the US, and prospects for future development of geothermal energy resources.