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Geothermal Power In Utah, The US, & The World Compared With Other Technologies

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Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:26:20 +0000

I believe in the clean power bible written by Mark Z. Jacobson of Stanford University. He explains why wind, water, and solar are the only practical and economical means he believes can convert the world efficiently, quickly, and economically to clean energy. He has eliminated other popular green energy items … [continued]

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Utah’s Clean Solar Energy & Storage Boom: Why?

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Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:15:36 +0000

Near some of the most beautiful spots in the world, the San Rafael Swell and Arches National Park (as shown in the two photos in the figure below) Moab, the Green River and the Colorado River, there is a massive new green energy project, the Green River Energy Center, which … [continued]

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Rocky Mountain Power, Torus Will Deploy Grid-Scale Energy Storage Program

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Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:18:19 +0000

Torus and Rocky Mountain Power, following the recent signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU), on Feb. 7 released additional technical details about the integration of Torus’s commercial energy storage […]

The post Rocky Mountain Power, Torus Will Deploy Grid-Scale Energy Storage Program appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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The Problem & Potential Of Hydropower

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Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2025 18:30:52 +0000

Mark Z. Jacobson from Stanford University has explained why investments in wind, water, and solar are the only feasible ways to convert the US and the world to clean energy. However, even the best technologies come with environmental impacts. With encouragement from the federal government, private industry has recently made … [continued]

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Clean Energy & Pork Production at Milford, Utah

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Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:34:53 +0000

There is a strange confluence of clean energy and pork production near Milford, Utah, 208 miles south of Salt Lake City, and 30 miles west of Beaver. Located there, just north of Milford in Beaver County, is the largest solar farm in Utah. It is the Escalante Solar Project, which … [continued]

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Renewable Energy Production & Use In Utah

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Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:04:13 +0000

In my travels across the country, I’ve seen massive wind farms in Wyoming, South Dakota, and Iowa, as well as huge wind farms and solar farms in southern California. However, living in Utah for 20 years and traveling north to south and east to west, the only grid-scale clean energy … [continued]

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Oil & Gas Frackers Love New Enhanced Geothermal Energy Systems

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Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2025 20:57:04 +0000

The emerging field of enhanced geothermal energy is providing oil and gas frackers with an opportunity to use their power for decarbonization, not extraction.

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We Have Toxic Winter Air Again On The Utah Wasatch Front. What Are We Doing About It?

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Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 19:34:08 +0000

In winter on the Utah Wasatch Front, on average we have 5 days, particularly in Salt Lake County, when the air is unsafe to breathe. There are another 18 days, on average, when the air is only “bad” to breathe. You will find naysayers like our President Elect who will … [continued]

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Utah Transit Authority Clean Energy TRAX (Street Cars) & Electric Buses Plus Front Runner (Heavy Rail)

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Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 15:49:24 +0000

In preparation for the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002, the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) planned and executed significant upgrades to the Salt Lake County and eventually Wasatch Front transit systems. The first element in the upgrade was the implementation of TRAX, the first Salt Lake City light rail … [continued]

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E-Bikes Could Solve A Big Problem For Arches National Park

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Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 04:59:13 +0000

Arches National Park in Utah recently announced that rangers are looking for comments on a proposed plan to deal with congestion. For over a decade, the National Park Service (NPS) has struggled to keep the park from becoming a gridlocked traffic mess as outdoor recreation has become more popular while … [continued]

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