Geothermal Could Clean up China's Coal Smog

Reported last week from China, geothermal energy could be about to play a much larger role in heating the heavily-polluted cities clustered in northern China that have traditionally been major consumers of coal and massive victims of winter smog, according to an industry insider. “We need to fully utilize geothermal energy, a renewable clean energy buried underground, to replace coal as winter heating fuel,” said Huang Gang, head of Huabei Oilfield Co, which is headquartered in Cangzhou, Hebei province. “It could alleviate the severe smog in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.”


Smog over Beijing, China (source: flickr/ gmetrail, creative commons)