Seattle-based Real Change covered the brownbag in January.
The benefits are very much the same as with conventional geothermal, said Petty; it’s reliable, leaves a small footprint, poses almost no risk to finite natural resources, and can be scaled to local needs.
An extra benefit is geothermal’s potential to create jobs in southeastern Washington, an area of high unemployment with known geothermal potential.
Developing the Walla Walla Geothermal Field could produce 212 jobs over 30 years according to Geothermal Energy Association Estimates. Taxes of $5.46 Million to the County would be well recieved.
Susan Petty Power PresentationAttached here is the large power point presentation given by Susan Petty at the Geothermal Brownbag. This presentation was presented by her a week earlier to former Vice President Al Gore.
With slow precision all the major State papers are picking up the Cascade covereage by Les Blumenthal. The link to the article is here.
A diagram of a geothermal power plant included in the article is below:
Senator Adam Kline acknowledged today that the Geothermal Study Bill would not be getting a hearing this session. Though some interest had been garnered from other members of the legislature, the timing was too short for this already short session. However, State Agencies are now interested in the dialogue and an elevated discussion on geothermal is happening.
Thanks to Senator Kline for showing leadership. 2009 should be a bigger year for Climate and geothermal in the state government. Objectively, this bill was highly optimistic.