Ecologia, Medio Ambiente y Energias Renovables en la Naturaleza
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Lunes, 21 de Mayo de 2012
Southern Methodist University and Google are collaborating in creating a map of geothermal resources across the United States.
Google has provided $489,521 as grant to the S.M.U. Geothermal Lab for the study with the maps being made available on Google Earth.
The project estimates the geothermal potential of the continental United States is more than 2,980,295 megawatts.
The researchers used additional temperature data and in-depth geological analysis to create updated temperature-at-depth maps from 3.5 kilometers to 9.5 kilometers.
Areas of particular geothermal interest include the Appalachian trend (Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, to northern Louisiana), the aquifer heated area of South Dakota, and the areas of radioactive basement granites beneath sediments such as those found in northern Illinois and northern Louisiana.
The Gulf Coast continues to be outlined as a huge resource area and a promising sedimentary basin for development. The Raton Basin in southeastern Colorado possesses extremely high temperatures and is being evaluated by the state along with an area energy company. – Katrice R. Jalbuena
