Clean Energy from Filthy Water
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B. The author wants to inform us on the way they are turning dirty water and making it into clean energy that is usable for everyone. This method has improved many things such as greenhouse gas emission by TWO BILLION POUNDS a year! That is the amount a coal-burning power plant comparable size would spew into the atmosphere. There are three stages that the water would go through in this process and they are; physical treatment in sedimentation tanks to remove grease, oil and other impurities; biological treatment to break down organic matter and remove nutrition and additional compounds; and sand or activated carbon filtration to remove remaining organic matter and parasites. The energy is clean and we do not have to worry about anything being contaminated and it is a liable resource. I think we should be doing for of this instead of using power plants.
C. I did not know about this method and I think that it is amazing. We need to use this method instead of using power plants or fracking or any other method because we need to save our environment and this is the way! Reading this article has convinced me that this is a good method and potential sites that lack adequate supply of water to inject into the hot rocks , the power plats at the Geysers still serve as an inspiration. Other sites can do what they have done. I really do like this type of power plant and I think it is one of the safest and more efficient ones that help our environment.
SAYS WHO?
Jane Braxton LittLe
WHAT IF?
What if more sites do not follow the lead of this one and do the right thing?
SO WHAT?
This is the environment that you live in, you should care about what is in the air that you are breathing. This method cleans up the air so you do not get sick and it doesn't lead to death.
WHAT DOES THIS REMIND ME OF?
This reminds me of different methods of doing different things because there is always a better choice and this is the one.
- Yesterdays toilet flush is todays electricity
- Hot rocks boil water into steam, which is piped to the surface to drive electricity-generating turbines
- Sister project in Lake County recycles eight million gallons of wastewater a day
- The Obama administration is touting geothermal as a clean energy source
- The U.S. Department of Energy, the technique could supply 10 percent of the nations electricity by 2050 and other estimates go higher
- Residents near the Calpine project are complaining of increased ground shaking, and are worried that an independent geothermal project in the same area could exacerbate the problem
- The steam that spews out the side of the Mayacamas Mountains is visible from the city, but until recently it offered little more than a distant backdrop
- Production of electricity was depleting the underground resource faster than it could be naturally replenished: Calpine's power plants were literally running out of steam
- Fixed the three problems with one simple solution: moving the wastewater to where it was wanted
- Water trapped in this greywacke sandstone reservoir boils into steam, which fizzes out through hairline fissures in the overlying rock cap
- Grant was building the nation's first geothermal power plant at the Geysers and completed it int 1921
- Drilling and pumping took a toll on the steam field
- By 1999 production dropped significantly
- The water has been processed in three stages along the was: physical treatment in sedimentation tanks to remove grease, oil and other impurities; biological treatment to break down organic matter and remove nutrition and additional compounds; and sand or activated carbon filtration to remove remaining organic matter and parasites
- Since Calpine began injecting effluent into the ground, local residents have experienced a dramatic increase in earthquakes; activity at the Geysers is up by 60 percent since 2003
- By generating 200 megawatts of electricity from wastewater, Santa Rosa and Lake County have effectively reduced greenhouse gas emission by two billion pounds a year- the amount that a coal-burning power plant of comparable size would spew into the atmosphere
- For potential sites that lack an adequate supply of water to inject into the hot rocks, the power plants at the Geysers still serve as an inspiration
B. The author wants to inform us on the way they are turning dirty water and making it into clean energy that is usable for everyone. This method has improved many things such as greenhouse gas emission by TWO BILLION POUNDS a year! That is the amount a coal-burning power plant comparable size would spew into the atmosphere. There are three stages that the water would go through in this process and they are; physical treatment in sedimentation tanks to remove grease, oil and other impurities; biological treatment to break down organic matter and remove nutrition and additional compounds; and sand or activated carbon filtration to remove remaining organic matter and parasites. The energy is clean and we do not have to worry about anything being contaminated and it is a liable resource. I think we should be doing for of this instead of using power plants.
C. I did not know about this method and I think that it is amazing. We need to use this method instead of using power plants or fracking or any other method because we need to save our environment and this is the way! Reading this article has convinced me that this is a good method and potential sites that lack adequate supply of water to inject into the hot rocks , the power plats at the Geysers still serve as an inspiration. Other sites can do what they have done. I really do like this type of power plant and I think it is one of the safest and more efficient ones that help our environment.
SAYS WHO?
Jane Braxton LittLe
WHAT IF?
What if more sites do not follow the lead of this one and do the right thing?
SO WHAT?
This is the environment that you live in, you should care about what is in the air that you are breathing. This method cleans up the air so you do not get sick and it doesn't lead to death.
WHAT DOES THIS REMIND ME OF?
This reminds me of different methods of doing different things because there is always a better choice and this is the one.