Friday, August 23, 2019

Science & Technology: Company Claims Closed Loop Geothermal System can be Implemented Across 80 Percent of the World

This Geothermal Energy System Could be Built in a Backyard (Futurism)

Canadian company Eavor Technologies is building a first-of-its-kind geothermal system in Alberta — and it could help the world finally tap into that potential.

“You can put it almost anywhere,” Eavor CEO John Redfern told CBC News. “It’s not like a windmill or solar panel… almost everything’s underground so you can literally put it in someone’s backyard.”

“It’s just a much more benign system,” Redfern told CBC News, “and it’s something that you can implement across 80 percent of the world instead of five percent of the world like traditional geothermal.”

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