Cornell is moving forward, and underground, with plans to drill an observatory borehole to explore the viability – and ensure the safety – of using geothermal energy to heat the Ithaca campus.
In our current climate dilemma, many methods and strategies for producing energy have arisen in the past few years. The crazy thing is that geothermal energy has the potential to be more effective than all of them.
Ecotricity is to buy the electricity generated by Geothermal Engineering's United Downs demonstration project in Cornwall under a power purchase agreement (PPA), the first time that geothermal electricity will be produced and sold in the UK.