Geothermal plant wins land-use approval in Southern Oregon

[depakid]

A Utah company has won land-use approval for a 10-megawatt power plant using geothermal heat on a farm in Southern Oregon.

The $35 million plant would draw on hot water beneath Liskey Farms south of Klamath Falls, where the owners already use the region's abundant geothermal heat for greenhouses and a biofuels facility.

A megawatt provides enough power for about 1,000 typical homes, according to the rule-of-thumb calculations used in the utility industry, so the geothermal plant would provide enough power for 10,000.

Jeremy Magrath of Raser Technologies said the plant will use six acres, with another 300 acres needed for the wells to feed hot water into the plant and then reinject it into the ground to preserve the energy source.

More: http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2008/03/geothermal_plant_wins_landuse.html
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Kind of nice to be sitting on that resource.

[sharesunited]

1. And it's supposedly underneath all of us

if you drill far enough.

[madokie]

2. And so far I see no downside to using geothermal heat