Get Steamed: Congress Should Fund Geothermal Research

I know it sounds conspiratorial, but I sometimes wonder about the motive of some of the members of congress. Geothermal was just reaching a point that it could soon become a viable energy source for large scale production. At this critical junction, congress decides to cut funding. Luckily they received a lot of letters and I think the funding may be reinstated.

Wind energy starts to take off quickly and Ted Kennedy and others, in delaying the Cape Cod project, also inadvertantly stopped Gigawatts of wind farm construction due to the false alarm of radar interference (I have a friend in the field and he said it is easy to compensate for the wind towers).

Since the 80's tax breaks seem to be designed more to collapse the industry, rather than help it.

Some progress is being made. If we keep writing our congressmen, maybe they'll stop trying to harm the industry.

Geothermal ("earth heat") energy has tremendous potential for producing electricity. About 8,000 megawatts (MW) of geothermal electricity are currently produced around the world, including about 2,800 MW of capacity in the United States. Today's technology produces electricity from hydrothermal (hot water/steam) resources. In the future, we may be able to use the heat of the deep, hot, dry rock formations of Earth's crust, and possibly the even deeper, almost unlimited energy in Earth's magma.
I hope the finding will be reinstated
Giulio Negrini
www.gnpimb.com