Utah Company has 7 Western-US Geothermal Projects Under Development

Google’s Bay View Campus facility outside San Francisco may be the largest thermal pile installation in the US.  Thermal piles combine the use of geothermal heating and cooling with the deep foundation system to improve […]

The historic town of Staufen in southwestern Germany on the western edge of the Black Forest is experiencing some rather unexpected downward movement these days. Several buildings, some of them historic, are experiencing cracking and distress and are still sinking at a rate of approximately 1mm per week. Investigations are underway, but everything seems to point towards drilling operations for geothermal energy which were conducted last fall. [Editor] More after the break…[/Editor]

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The Globe Drill GT3000 mobile drill rig takes about two semis to haul, but can drill holes as deep as some oil and gas rigs that take 40 or 50 semis to move. It has […]