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2. Part 2
3. Part 4

GEOCOGEN Project – Part 3

Geothermal Heat

We humans have used geothermal heat for many centuries in very limited fashions – hot water springs, Roman baths, a few rudimentary geo-steam power plants, even distributed town heating.

Iceland, Italy, New Zealand, the Philippines, and the USA have captured more of the geological heat available in their volcanic environments than anyone else. But that’s due to geological oddities that are not available to about 98% of the world.

So what is there? Think about it – everywhere in the world, some places deeper, some shallower, there is the heat of the core of the earth seeping up through the bedrock. The typical temperature gradient is about 3°C (5°F) per 100 meters (330 feet). What this means is that there is a furnace underneath all of us, and if we go far enough down, it’s hot enough to measure up to a thermal or nuclear power plant boiler.

The question is, how do we tap this heat?

Almost 30 years ago, Process Engineer Kurt Brunnschweiler in Switzerland proposed the very idea of tapping this heat for our domestic and industrial use. The problem with his system was that the engineering, construction, and mining equipment needed for such a project did not exist at that time.

Today, it does exist.

Let’s look into the project and see what is involved. The things that we need to make this work – now we’re talking about the daily operation of such a project – are the following:

1. A way to get the heat to the surface
2. A way to convert the heat to energy
3. A way to transport this energy to the consumers nearby

To be continued …

Thanks for looking in,

Jimmy Craig
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Sue & Craig Websites

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Note: The name GEOCOGEN and the GEOCOGEN trade mark are registered trademarks of ICEC Holding AG and GEOCOGEN AG – all rights reserved. Read more about GEOCOGEN at http://geocogen.net

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GEOCOGEN Project – Part 3

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27 April 2010 – “We need to urgently transform the global energy system” Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon at the UN discussing the need for more commitment for clean and more electrical energy on a global basis. Please pay attention – it’s your future and my future these people are talking about!

We will be proposing a new alternative solution over the next few weeks – please stay tuned!

Thanks for looking in,

Jimmy Craig
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Sue & Craig Websites

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The UN’s Commitment to Alternative Power

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Hello!

I just read a post in the Guardian (UK newspaper) technology blog about a case of them finding out that a Gmail account had been entered by a Chinese hacker. That’s kind of scary for me, I don’t know whether it strikes you that way or not. I have about 15 Gmail accounts. In any case, being thoroughly British and complete, they also recommend a way to check to discover if your account has been hacked, and if so, what to do.

Here’s their conclusion:

Even so, it’s clearly a good idea to check your Gmail status from time to time.
To do that, log in, go to Settings on the top right, and scroll down to the bottom. There you’ll find some text in green telling you how much of your allowance you’re using; and below that a line saying “Last account activity: … minutes ago at this IP..” and a hyperlink to Details. Click that for a view of your account access history. And make sure that your Alert Preference is set for “Show an alert for unusual activity.”

And the source is http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/mar/25/gmail-china-hacking. I followed up and happily discovered that none of my accounts have been compromised by some Chinese or any other person or “bot”. Whew! I did discover that my ISP’s IP address range has expanded since I started with them, so I modified my account in StatCounter.com (free advert for a free service) to reflect that – it keeps me from counting my own hits on our websites’ statistics.

Thought you might like to know – and you can spread the word by telling people that you saw it first on Practical-Greenology-dot-com!

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Ciao for now,

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Craig for Sue & Craig Websites

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GoogleMail Hacked By Chinese?

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