Comments on: There’s Real Green Energy Under Our Feet https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2011/10/26/theres-real-green-energy-under-our-feet/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: RD Blakeslee https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2011/10/26/theres-real-green-energy-under-our-feet/#comment-1482 RD Blakeslee Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:38:44 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=3408#comment-1482 "Extracting geothermal energy can have adverse environmental impacts, particularly air pollution from radon gas, hydrogen sulfide, methane, ammonia, and carbon dioxide emissions. Generally, the carbon dioxide emissions of a geothermal power plant are only five percent of the emissions from equivalent fossil fuel power plants. Using geothermal resources can also create substantial thermal pollution from waste heat." http://www.unep.fr/energy/information/publications/factsheets/pdf/geothermal.PDF All energy transformations providing energy for mankind's use will have some negative environmental consequences. Those associated with wind and wave power generation are thermodynamic: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028063.300-wind-and-wave-energies-are-not-renewable-after-all.html “Extracting geothermal energy can have adverse environmental impacts, particularly air pollution from radon gas, hydrogen sulfide, methane, ammonia, and carbon dioxide emissions. Generally, the carbon dioxide emissions of a geothermal power plant are only five percent of the emissions from equivalent fossil fuel power plants. Using geothermal resources can also create substantial thermal pollution from waste heat.”
http://www.unep.fr/energy/information/publications/factsheets/pdf/geothermal.PDF

All energy transformations providing energy for mankind’s use will have some negative environmental consequences. Those associated with wind and wave power generation are thermodynamic:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028063.300-wind-and-wave-energies-are-not-renewable-after-all.html

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