The year 2019 found California producing 10,943 gigawatt-hours of energy in their 43 Geothermal Power Plants, and Nevada 33. These plants do not require complex machinery or large destruction of the environment and sit on the same volcanic zone that BC sits on. They have the smallest footprint of any renewable source of energy and use simple steam turbines and a few drilled wells to pump electricity into the grid. Creating the cheapest energy on the planet with the least environmental damage.
The reliability of this energy is like no other it is constant 24 hours a day 7 days a week and is far less likely to be damaged by a cyberattack, earthquakes, floods or other man-made or natural events. Any damage to the facility would only result in the release of hot water into the environment.
The growth potential of this source of electricity is very easy to scale up once the first wells have been put into production. In California, they are now attaching mineral extraction facilities to geothermal electric plants that extract Lithium and other valuable minerals without the need to create destructive mines.
British Columbia has a massive capacity for Geothermal Power, as does Alberta and Saskatchewan. The BC government needs to shift BC Hydro's mandate to the development of geothermal electrical power plants, it is the foundation of a strong sustainable future. We are throwing our money away by investing in site C and Natural Gas pipelines. Geothermal power plants could create more energy than site C at a fraction of the cost.
We are being left behind as these geothermal electric plants are not only found in the US but also in El Salvador, Kenya, the Philippines, Iceland, New Zealand, Costa Rica, Turkey, Mexico, Japan, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Portugal, China, Germany, France, Ethiopia, Austria, Australia and Thailand. We are being left behind and dependant on antiquated 19th-century technology such as dams and natural gas both leak methane into the atmosphere. Both causing extensive damage to the environment and contributing to climate change.
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