{"id":147974,"date":"2022-10-11T15:23:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T20:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/geothermal-may-beat-batteries-for-energy-storage"},"modified":"2022-10-11T15:23:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T20:23:04","slug":"geothermal-may-beat-batteries-for-energy-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/geothermal-may-beat-batteries-for-energy-storage","title":{"rendered":"Geothermal May Beat Batteries for Energy Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/geothermal-may-beat-batteries-for-energy-storage.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Their results apply only to enhanced geothermal plants, like the ones Fervo and other companies such as Cambridge, Mass.\u2013based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quaise.energy\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Quaise Energy<\/a> and Seattle-based <a href=\"http:\/\/altarockenergy.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">AltaRock Energy<\/a> are developing.<\/p>\n<p>Conventional geothermal systems drill wells into naturally occurring hydrothermal reservoirs. But these pockets of hot water deep underground do not exist everywhere. In the United States, for instance, they are mostly located in the west.<\/p>\n<p>Enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) get around this geographical limitation by creating artificial reservoirs. Developers create fractures in hot, dry rock formations by drilling into or <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/altarock-energy-melts-rock-with-millimeter-waves-for-geothermal-wells\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\">melting the rock<\/a>, and then injecting water into the fissures. Production wells bring the heated water up for producing electricity. \u201cFor scales necessary to contribute to national or global electricity decarbonization, we need to be able to extract geothermal heat outside of conventional formations,\u201d Ricks says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Their results apply only to enhanced geothermal plants, like the ones Fervo and other companies such as Cambridge, Mass.\u2013based Quaise Energy and Seattle-based AltaRock Energy are developing. Conventional geothermal systems drill wells into naturally occurring hydrothermal reservoirs. But these pockets of hot water deep underground do not exist everywhere. In the United States, for instance, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}