BACC Editor on Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:52

Google Backs Geothermal Firms’ Effort to Tap Volcanoes’ Heat for Clean Energy

Mountain View-based Internet giant Google is one of the main investors in a new effort to generate clean energy from volcanoes’ heat. The U.S. government, Google and other investors have poured $43 million into the project by geothermal energy companies AltaRock Energy of Washington state and Davenport Newberry Holdings of Connecticut. The firms plan to pump water into the side of a dormant volcano this summer, in the hopes that it will come back to the surface fast enough and hot enough to create clean electricity. Read more here.