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This video is about a walk to the windmills, which here in Costa Rica are located throughout the country! In 2016, this country has transferred 100% to the energy of the sun, wind, water - renewable sources!
This is amazing!
Why doesn't Costa Rica switch to geothermal energy like Iceland currently does? Geothermal energy is much more dependable and is cheaper to produce on average than wind power for example.
Why doesn't Costa Rica switch to geothermal energy like Iceland currently does? Geothermal energy is much more dependable and is cheaper to produce on average than wind power for example.
I have wanted to design and develop a geothermal variation that tapped the very high temperature energy available in volcanic magma. I would call it MAGMATAP.
This is somewhat different from MAGA. Both are pipedreams.
Thirty years ago we were discussing the relative merits of forced air heating systems vs hydronic and I wondered why a subdivision or even a small town couldn't build a central boiler and pipe the hot water around to all buildings to use the economy of scale to lower costs.
I was amazed to learn shortly thereafter that early in the 20th century, Oak Park IL, famous for having multiple homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, had a system back when factories were mostly run on steam power, whereby they bought excess steam from a local factory and piped it thru the sidewalks & streets originally designed to keep them clear of ice in winter, but then expanded to include heating houses.
That system of course became obsolete as the use of steam in factories waned, but a geothermal source of high heat, like a volcano, could serve as well. Good idea-- unless you lived in Herculaneum.
District heating was at one time quite common in the United States, and is still fairly common in Europe. Generally the capital and operating costs of district heating makes new and expanded systems uneconomic. That it is new to you doesn't make it news.
Operating on 100% renewable resources may work fine for a country of only 5 million and no major industry to speak of. Costa Rica also get the majority of it energy from hydroelectric, which is a renewable resource, it also has a few diesel generators that it can rely on when needed.
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