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GEOCOGEN 2

Jimmy Craig — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:29:37 +0000

GEOCOGEN PROJECT

GEOCOGEN Project – Part 2

Some Basic Information and Some History

Now, you’re probably saying to yourself – “ah ha, another scam, producing quote – free – unquote energy with no fuel and no CO2. I wonder what the catch is to this one.”

Well, the “catch” to this one is that there are virtually no catches! Let me try to explain it to you piece by piece.

First, let’s look at the example of geothermal energy that you are probably familiar with – a household heat pump. What the heat pump does is use the soil near your house as a heat sink or as heat storage – in the winter, there’s enough heat there in the soil that it’s possible to extract some of it and use it to heat your house. Now, that’s not free, because the electricity to make the system circulate takes back some of the free energy you are using, but it’s still a good deal.

Now maybe you don’t understand the details, but I expect you do understand the general principles – you move heat from the ground to the house to heat the house. And what you use in the soil is a coil of pipe or tubing that lets the heat move from the soil to the fluid inside the pipe.

Okay, now let’s take that one step farther and go to a larger scale. Instead of going just a few meters down – let’s say 10 feet – let’s go down deep enough to where there is some real heat available – say 500 feet, or how about 1500 feet. But it’s all but impossible to put the pipe coils that deep – you would have to dig out the complete hole about two acres around the pipe that comes down and goes up to the surface.

Think about that – a hole about two acres on the surface that goes down 1500 feet! That’s some hole!

Well, the petroleum geologists came up with an answer that comes out of the oil fields. In some oil fields where the oil is very viscous, it is possible to drill a matrix of wells to put high-pressure steam down into the rock formation, and because the rock is permeable (that means it has small passageways in it that oil and gas and steam can go through), you can slowly heat up the oil to make it flow easier and push it through to other wells where you can pump it up to the surface.

These operations can be organised in fields that are anywhere between maybe 1000 feet deep and 1-1/2 miles deep. The value of the extra oil that is recovered this way makes it economically possible to do this.

To be continued…

Thanks for looking in,

Jimmy Craig
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GEOCOGEN Project – Part 2

New GREEN STORES!

Jimmy Craig — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:29:25 +0000

Hi there!

Just want to let you know that – consistent with out home site’s name, Green Home MegaStore, we now have two online stores open! Green Home Store No. 1 and Green Home Store No. 2 (real imagination there, right?).

You can find them by clicking on the names above, or searching them out in the sidebars to the right.

Visit them and enjoy!

Ciao for now,

Craig
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T-Shirt Message

Jimmy Craig — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:39:24 +0000

Hi there!

I bought a t-shirt the other day that has an eco-political message on it. Let’s see if you can read it on the webcam shot I took…

The lighting isn’t great but I think you can make out the message: “NATURE FOREVER – POLLUTION FOR NEVER”

Not bad for a commercial effort. And I bought it in France, so it’s English in France as well. Well, you can never tell what’s going to happen next, right? The only problem with it, as far as I can see, is that the label that says it’s made of “100% cotton” is plastic and the ink comes off on your fingers!

Who knows what will come next? Well, I can tell you what came before. I’m in Bulgaria for a few weeks, and the weather has been rotten (as in most of the eastern Mediterranean area – global warming?) . Two days ago, I was working away on my laptop in an apartment building, when all of a sudden, there was a lightning strike that (I think) hit the top of the building. The building is 18 stories and we’re on the 12th, so I’m not certain. What I am certain about is that it fried the Ethernet card in my laptop! I’m working on my business partner’s desktop PC – with a dual-language system and keyboard (Bulgarian and English). That’s a challenge! And the English part of the keyboard is (of course) different from my Swiss German layout. If some of what I write here looks strange, at least there’s a reason this time! :-D

Ciao for now,

Craig
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