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AltaRock Energy integrates CO2 as working fluid

AltaRock’s  President and Chief Technology Officer Susan Petty shows commercial leadership from her office in Seattle.  AltaRock makes the link between geothermal and carbon dioxide as a working fluid.  From Earthtimes earlier this month

GreenFire Energy (GreenFire) today announced that it has entered into a technology sublicense agreement with AltaRock Energy (AltaRock) for the core patent for using CO2 as the working fluid in a geothermal energy plant. The technology, which GreenFire refers to as “CO2G™,” will produce renewable geothermal energy while also sequestering large volumes of CO2. GreenFire intends to be the first company in the world to commercialize this technology. The sublicense gives GreenFire exclusive rights to the technology across a broad region centered on the St. Johns Dome, located in Apache County, AZ and Catron County, NM. It also gives GreenFire national non-exclusive access to the technology for the purposes of developing other sites, some of which have already been identified.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/greenfire-energy-announces-a-technology,1117913.shtml

The author of this blog acknowledges the conflict of interest to carbon capture he holds.

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2009 Washington State Geothermal Wrap up

Washington state moved along with the pack as geothermal had one of its best years in decades.   Nationally, 6 plants came on line and another 144 are under development.  In Washington State, it is the sole project of Vulcan Power (not related to Paul Allen’s Vulcan of Seattle) that is looking to develop a resource on the east side of Mt. Baker.

Little has happened of note following the Alta-Rock access to rights beneath 263,000 acres of timber property in Western Washington.  Nor has Seattle City Light moved to take on any resource development.

However, SnoPud continues to be a leader and moves forward with their geothermal development in the Cascades.  They received $15 Million in federal funding for their innovative energy work in not only geothermal, but also tidal and smart meters.

The June 3rd Geothermal Workshop in Seattle was successful with lots of Canadian attention coming down from Vancouver.

State Senator Kline is committed to re-introducing his geothermal bill in the 2010 Legislature in Olympia.

However, the state remains in need of a deep borehole in the Cascades for some accurate assessments on the resource potential.

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