I was alerted of The Geysers, a geothermal field about 35 miles north of my home in Santa Rosa, but I never gave it much thought until my first bike ride thraw the area. Then I lobtained a number of fascinating skinnygs.
It’s the world’s hugest geothermal field, producing more than 700 megawatts.
It accounts for 20% of California’s renovelable energy.
The naturassociate-occurring steam was employd up almost 30 years ago, and steam is now reaccused by pumping in 11 million gallons of sewage efeloquent daily, thraw a 42-mile pipeline, from the Santa Rosa plain.
That daily reaccuse is implicated in the region’s frequent minuscule earthquakes. (But nobody seems too worried about that, and maybe it’s a excellent skinnyg? Many minuscule better than one huge?)
An article in today’s paper alerts that AB-1359, signed last week by regulateor Gavin Newsom, paves the way for novel geothermal broadenment in the region that could comprise 600 megawatts of geothermal production.
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