Why Google Is Spending Billions To Build A Geothermal Power Plant

[@TheImpossibleBuild]

Will Google provide the answer to the world’s 24/7 green energy needs?

[@user-xr4bo3ln6f]

Let look up how much water geothermal power plants need first, and check where and how you can connect geothermal powerplants and reliable a water sources , and assess the costs

[@MrRight-v2s]

Why is that really needed! Didn’t scientists figure out how to create energy using energy. New era of nuclear power.

[@michaelglynn7010]

@@user-xr4bo3ln6fYou could use water pumps, but then that’d take away a chunk of the power generated so it’d cost a lot to doo this and even then it might not make back what it costed for a very long time

[@lylestavast7652]

@@michaelglynn7010 Every energy conversion to create electricity has parasitic losses in the process. That's nothing new.

[@andrewday3206]

@@MrRight-v2s Closed Loop geothermal has been around for a long time. Using refrigerant based systems that work at cooler temperatures have been around a long time as well. These systems like nuclear plants do not expose the the power side circulate to the heat absorbing circulant. The refrigerant condenses the steam and gets boiled in the process. The condensed steam is pumped back into the well and the boiled refrigerant powers a turbine.

[@Elliot_97]

Man just yapped the same sentence in different ways for 10 minutes

[@mattpearson9905]

But they will use advanced new techniques and power data analytics!

[@1voluntaryist]

Not a "man" reading from a script but AI generated audio. This new podcast tech needs to be improved, e.g., it repeats, adds too much background info.

[@AbdulDsouza]

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[@AbdulDsouza]

​I was taught in Sunday school, everything is contained in the Bible, that is why it is a collaboi effort,eith a very large number of wolves in sheep's clothing?

[@Grimerpr2016]

it's still fascinating, i like it

[@alexanderx33]

Damn low effort robovids.

[@robertdaoust5691]

This is such a better idea than the current wind and solar power solutions since the power would be available 24/7, wake up people this is good.

[@MichaelDavis-cy4ok]

Power is available 24/7; it doesn't kill birds like solar; it doesn't take massive amounts of toxic chemicals that are just dumped on the ground and into the aquifers of third world countries like solar; it only takes a fraction of the square footage of solar and wind; it doesn't dam up rivers like hydroelectric, it won't need replacing in 25 years like solar or to be torn out altogether in 100 years like hydro, it only takes a fraction of the maintenance and materials of a wind farm... the advantages are almost endless. The big difference is that there is a much bigger up-front cost.

[@jeffthetrainer6250]

Geothermal Energy can serve as the major power plant used in conjunction with Solar/Wind Renewable Energy Sources. Also, Tidal/Wave Renewable Energy Sources can provide additional Energy in conjunction with Solar/Wind/Geothermal Renewable Energy Sources. The idea is create an abundance of Renewable Energy Sources to permanently replace Fossil Fuels, Coal, & Nuclear power.

[@neolithictransitrevolution427]

If you look at closed loop geothermal, which I think is the most likely to succeed, it actually pairs very will with solar. Because you leave the water down well during the day, while solar is generating, you super heat the water past stead state, and can produce above the name plate capacity to peak in the evening. Then overnight output drops as the equilibrium fluid temperature is reached, providing base load over night. And, since the templature gradients are low in geothermal, the greater difference between summer and winter temperatures makes a significant increase in efficiency and power output, increasing the baseload in the winter when solar output is lowest. Solar is ultimately going to be cheapest. Certainly solar with a few hour back up for the evening and voltage management. Maybe solar with overnight storage. But I don't think there is a situation where the grid isn't built to accommodate the low cost solar. Geothermal, however, might work even better than NG to balance that.

[@SusanPetty73]

The power plant that the Fervo project is located at is owned by Cyrq Energy. There are many such geothermal power plants in Nevada and also in California. In fact the US generates the most geothermal energy in the world. What Fervo is doing is adding to the heat being used in the binary power plant to generate electricity. So Google is not building the plant. The rock isn’t dry, it is fractured but there isn’t enough permeability to be economic so Fervo fractures the rock to improve the permeability and make the wells produce more hot water. This plant doesn’t use steam, it uses the hot water to heat a working fluid that vaporizes and turns a turbine. The Blue Mountain plant has 3 binary units.

[@MineMech23]

Thanks for the info aa

[@MichaelGoforthMiguelLeo]

It is the Nevada Desert. Where is the water coming from?

[@cybernoid001]

Nevada has more ground water aquafers than any other state in the union. The issue is its recharge rate is really slow. depending on how Google is going to use the water, its likely that the vast majority of it will be recycled through the system over and over again. If not, then the engineers are stupid. But the experimental Google building in this video is only a few miles away from the Tesla Giga factory that is also in Nevada about 20 minutes outside of Reno Nevada.

[@grahamclark7483]

HOOVER dAM!

[@agadafrancis9280]

Possibly aquifers in the subsurface or nearby streams. . .

[@TheSateef]

why put a data center in Nevada where its hot as hell. what about Minnesota or someplace that could use the waste heat

[@samuelramsey5995]

Minnesota gets -50 degrees and foots of snow that cave in roofs. Then you get tornadoes and thunderstorms. At least you only worry about heat in Nevada.

[@railgap]

Tax breaks.

[@neolithictransitrevolution427]

I've always felt that Newfoundland should be a capital of building data centers being cold, having huge amounts of cheap hydro, and being on the intercontinental lines. That said, one reason is probably how cheap solar is when you don't have clouds. Such power hungry industry benefits from cheap, reliable solar.

[@stanmitchell3375]

There is solar there

[@RakingItIn]

Geo thermal energy is great

[@domtweed7323]

Geothermal could provide dispatchable power to back up wind/solar (cause, when you don't need it, you can just close the valves and preserve the heat of the hole).

[@neolithictransitrevolution427]

Also because the low temperature gradients mean that small changes in the difference can significantly impact energy conversion. And so in the winter, when solar and wind is lower, the output of the geothermal is highest.

[@chrisrelling]

Will the heat last though? There have been hydrothermal plants without a magma chamber liquid heat reservoir before. Most of them loose significant heat after a year’s operation. Good on them for trying though.

[@mcr2356]

I don't know the answer, but I think the hundreds of people working on it and the company who have invested significant money would of worked that out.

[@kellerhorton]

This video is encouraging for our future. Give us five years and we will all make sure that non-polluting energy production is the cheapest in the world!

[@esterparis1190]

The big problem with geothermal energy is to have an efficient circulation of water between two distant boreholes. Too often it is necessary to drill several boreholes to finally achieve this circulation. Horizontal drilling developed to search for shale gas or oil is the technique that allows a real qualitative leap. The length of the heat exchange zone is, at the same time, longer and hydraulic fracturing widens the exchange surface.

[@td6199]

This sounds more like PR for Google than anything else.

[@mrparadise2329]

GA Drilling is way better and cheaper

[@kenfishpeter]

Kenya has been doing this since the 80's, providing up to 800 MegaWatts of electricity in one of the most advanced electricity generation techniques ever invented

[@lylestavast7652]

by volume Kenya does about 1/3 what the US (which leads the world in electricity generation from geothermal) does. Good to see it happening. Indonesia is right behind the US.

[@KRYMauL]

@@lylestavast7652 And Iceland is about 2x the US.

[@fritzstauffacher6931]

Kenya only has to go 900 meters. The break through here is fracking tech that lets them go much deeper.

[@JKVisFX]

Being able to produce mainline, steady power to the grid is indeed the main thing that wind and solar cannot do. If successful, geothermal power using today's state-of-the-art drilling and fracking techniques could indeed be that source of steady, clean, renewable power. There's real potential here, I hope it proves itself out.

[@mathiaslist6705]

We'll see if it gets successful. As Europe has an ongoing energy war now with Russia since 2022 --- that's a proof that energy independence is of utter importance if you want to prevent inflation etc. So I'd say this could be of interest for defence and thus sponsored by the military budget.

[@ФедорГеоргиевич-ь1ю]

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[@mathiaslist6705]

@@ФедорГеоргиевич-ь1ю Надеус что они исполсовают

[@АгронДепартье]

Piece with neighbors is even more important

[@mathiaslist6705]

@@АгронДепартье Buying Russian Gas heavily backfired. I see it every time now on my heating and electricity bill. Actually kind of a personal declaration of war.

[@patpozzuto4809]

Sounds like fracking, considered a biohazard in most of the United States when used to extract the cleaners Natural Gas in the world... but I guess when fracking is used to promote a different narrative all the biohazard concerns magically disappear. MAGIC has always fascinated me 😏

[@disgustedandamused]

The details of each region probably matter here. A lot of the criticism of early fracking dealt with holes drilled in more populated rural areas back East like in Pennsylvania. People using well water were having their wells (the groundwater formations above the shale gas formations the frackers were aiming for) polluted. Either the upper levels of gas wells passing through the water table levels weren't cased properly - allowing chemicals from the fracking processes to leak out into the water table - or the fracking was taking place at depths shallow enough to allow such leaking. Oil and gas projects (both old style sandstone or newfangled shale formations) by definition are in sedimentary basins, with multiple layers of sedimentary rock - so there's probably groundwater above the oil and gas. If there's any settlement in the area, they're probably tapping into that water already (good chance the oil and gas drillers want to make use of some of that water themselves, which can be another issue). Also, the water used during the drilling of the well (and that's a lot of water, now with funny chemicals in it) will need to be disposed of somehow, somewhere - and that's often in OTHER wells in the area, tapping into other formations. That can leak into some of those "good' water-bearing formations as well. Geothermal projects, in either the classic naturally fractured/ porous areas already developed around the world, or the newer "enhanced" projects like this one, tend to be in igneous formations instead of sedimentary. That must affect the potential interactions with other formations. Also, at least in the US, most of the geothermal projects (natural and enhanced) are in the West - California, Oregon, Utah, and Nevada especially. Many of these are in desert regions. There can be irrigated agriculture in the area, but there can also be some distance between these activities as well. No, they don't "magically disappear" - but they aren't automatically identical either. Using mere ideology in place of evidence on either side of this is just dumb. Also, fracking itself may have developed as a tech in the last decade-plus, so some of the very real problems during the WBush/Cheney Administration may have changed since then. There are several companies, as well as several government agencies (not just in the US) researching other potential advancements in drilling tech that may make much, much deeper wells than these practical.

[@bambamyong]

Green clean energy

[@simonpannett8810]

Data servers have more electricity use than some countries!!!

[@IJustFiguredThisOut]

What country? Some tiny island nation? Are you complaining just to complain? Google data centers, Amazon data centers, any data center, these places are invaluable to the internet as we know it considering the amount of data they host and the redundancies they have in place to make sure none of those servers go down.

[@vidzilla1]

Why is Google spending billions and billions because they have billions and billions 🙄

[@Herry-y7e]

Because they need the energy. It's all about energy E=mc2

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

They’ve got more billions to spend than me.

[@railgap]

For now. They are neglecting the core business which keeps them afloat. IF that tanks before the new profit centers come online, they'll implode.

[@esterparis1190]

Le gros problème avec la geothermie est d'avoir une circulation efficace de l'eau entre deux forages éloigne. Trop souvent il faut faires plusieurs forages pour enfin réussir cette circulation. Le forage horizontal mis au point pour rechercher du gaz ou pétrole de schiste est la technique qui permet un vrai bond qualitatif. la longeure de la zone d'échange thermique est, a la fois, plus longue et la fracturation hydraulique élargit la surface d'échange.

[@boblordylordyhowie]

Revolutionary, do you mean just like Iceland has been doing for decades?

[@markfernandes2467]

Its not at all the same. Iceland has naturally occuring aquifers of easy to tap geo Thermal, this is making those artificially bt fracking and at far greater depths. Totally different. Howvever, Eavor and others have already done similar, so in that sense, no, not revolutionary, I agree.

[@OJsGuardianAngel]

So you basically just watched the whole video on mute huh.

[@CUBETechie]

It's a technolgy which has huge Potential . steam Power ist used for 300 years. The mayority of our electricity Comes from steamturbines either from coal, gasturbines where the exhaust gas heat up water and Power the steamturbine. To get electricity. Nuclear Power plants. Block heating powerplant is like a the combined cycle power plant / combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT). If you use Geothermal energy to Power a Turbine which can be either steam or Organic Rankine Cycle The Server generate a lot of heat which mean it could be used for heating up another Organic Rankine Cycle and run turbine.

[@ChristopherFalletta-rh9jf]

Because it’s free energy if they can actually tap into the heat within the earth. Free energy equals no carbon emissions.

[@ericksonmontalbo7995]

nice project,i wish this project will exist........👍

[@alanhannebauer7222]

Can you not have the world spinning in the right direction at 7:44?

[@nick0047]

I’m not saying I’m right but there seems to be a correlation between fracking sites and subsurface earthquakes. This could also lead to this as the wells run deep into the crust?

[@MichaelGoforthMiguelLeo]

Yes it most definitely will. The Geysers in Northern California USA uses natural fissures and they ran dry of water, they now inject water in and it causes earthquakes, I live near this area and feel the quakes.

[@mikesahle1193]

Thank you 🙏 great 👍 idea 💡☝️Hawaii should follow ,maybe they are doing it 👏👏👏👍🇺🇸🎥

[@Mike.Meteorologist]

--> Fracking techniques are associated with increased seismic activity, in the form of localized earthquakes. . . . .

[@MuzzaHukka]

They could desalinate the ocean by cooling the steam and piping it

[@mrparadise2329]

GA Drilling

[@Niwaduwata]

Like this big company has duty serve the world. But most companies not do like this thanks google 🎉🎉🎉❤❤

[@watchthe1369]

The Million Dollar Man Core tap!

[@andrewmattson3299]

For Geothermal to work,there will be fracking in order to maintain the volumetric head required.Even the Geysers in Lake/Sonoma counties this was ongoing during construction .In 1975-79.

[@SusanPetty73]

There was no deliberate fracking during the early days of geothermal development at the Geysers. There was no injection of the cooled condensed steam which is what causes fracturing and seismicity at the Geysers. Injection started in the Geysers in the 1980s. There have been tests recently of fracturing at the Geysers to tap the deeper hotter rock that isn’t fractured already.

[@gratefulamateur1393]

Deceptive title. Basically an ad for Google.

[@brucekristy]

That was fascinating!

[@SparklySpencer]

Intro Vid could have been more in depth

[@marcinu6843]

Are they gonna use fresh or sea water?

[@klausdietrich7428]

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[@mickgatz214]

Soundz like a good plan. 👍

[@breaux82]

But I thought fracking was a bad thing!?

[@samuelramsey5995]

Fracking is bad when drilling for unrefined oil and gas. Its releases toxic chemicals into the ground that oil and gas refineries usually take out. Leaking hot water is called a geyser. Leaking oil and gas is chemical spill

[@IJustFiguredThisOut]

The difference between fracking when they are doing it to generate electricity compared to oil is with electricity all they are doing is shooting water into the parts of the ground, whereas doing it to extract oil they have to use chemicals in the process. I'm not positive exactly how it's done, I know that they have developed a way of making it much safer and/or cleaner than it use to be, but they still have to use chemicals to get the oil. But in any oil extraction, even if it's drilling underneath the Gulf of Mexico, there are going to be such tradeoffs. Risk/reward type of thing. One wrong move out there you suddenly flood the entire Gulf with oil. There are no oil fields in the world that have pump naturally built into them that we can just go hook our stuff up to. That goes for many of our natural resources.

[@drmindbender8616]

Why didn't google go to yellow stone the magma chamber is huge ??

[@steven4315]

Could be that drilling deep holes and fracking in a supervolcano is a bad idea. Other thing it is a national park.

[@drmindbender8616]

@@steven4315 but what a source of geo-thermal energy

[@catchnkill]

Very few people live there and demand is not there

[@ChristopherFalletta-rh9jf]

I wonder if graphing drillbits will allow us to drill further into the earth

[@billionairesjourney3905]

Sounds like a google ads 😏 already

[@mikeconroy2651]

I love the concept but 3.5 megawatts after all that is pretty sad. I was expecting another zero behind it.....

[@TheTijuasman]

So a power plant in the middle of the desert. So where do they get the water from?

[@MichaelGoforthMiguelLeo]

Yes where?

[@DSHK-wb5cn]

You simply capture, condense and reuse the exhaust, this has been done since the 1800s. Nearly all steam power plants do that, i make them as a hobby. Size, weight and surface area isnt a concern at this scale and oil injection isnt necessary for turbines so they can definitely recycle 100% of it. Seawater can be used as coolant if the condenser is made of stainless steel or inconel

[@kenhickford6581]

Are Google forward planning for when the USA Grid falls apart?...Keep all the Servers up and running when the USA Power Generation goes mammary glands skyward?? Plus they will have control of the Power Prices? Global Geothermal Power Plants There are currently 187 Geothermal power plants across the globe with a total capacity of 11932.8 MW. Just asking.

[@DeviDaylight]

Minute change and cooldown of the earths core, its a baaad idea if it becomes a popular use. Along a timeline humans cannot imagine this will cool down earth enough to maybe break earth.

[@markoplixo]

Google isn’t really carbon neutral.

[@fifthavenuewindows]

it's all about finding the right place to drill,

[@mrparadise2329]

its not, you can drill at 90% of earth, look up GA Drilling

[@muskepticsometimes9133]

3.5 MW is 0.0035 GW not much.

[@rayf4925]

Amazing! Google Bard created this cheesy promo. Still, the advancements in AI to do this is - in the words of the AI narrator "Earnestly Revolutionary"!

[@luisj.serrano5821]

this is not new, there are 37 geothermal plants only in Germany and 30 more are planned

[@antie5763]

Do you know which company made the plants. Can you send me more info about the projects?

[@luisj.serrano5821]

@@antie5763 idk

[@mrparadise2329]

GA DRILLING, Folks!

[@Belaziraf]

Either the video is BS or Google is stupid. There are a few places on earth where the magma is much closer to the surface and more fit for geothermal powerplant as they have quite low efficiency compared to other sources. Picking a location quite randomly is plain stupid and insane.

[@catchnkill]

close to demand is also very important. Long distance electricity transmission is costly and not efficient.

[@VinceCannavaII]

Skynet needs power.

[@shasanmaz]

limited effect as the scale is small, typical video that talk too big but do nothing.

[@superlacrosseguy]

This will shorten the opportunity for life on earth. Short term gains (centuries) long term loss. (Think magnetic field.)

[@dennis8445]

Solar panels heat up the earth. If you measure the average temperature of the property before solar panels. Then do the same after you will see the big temp change. Just a bunch of google bull shit.

[@GreyDeathVaccine]

for stats +1

You were doing ok until you went into a Google inspired wet eco dream. Try and stick to the topic.

[@pinchesmbuche4354]

I n kenya riftalley it's almost in the surface

[@electrify2025]

Fracking, bad.

[@watchthe1369]

OH! Can you inject CO2 instead? If you can do that, you put CO2 down the fracked wells and get natural gas out. In the future you drill the fracked wells deeper and turn them into C02 loop systems, sequestering co2 on a large scale while also creating a sustainable energy source?

[@KRYMauL]

We're not going after natural gas with these plants.

[@ФедорГеоргиевич-ь1ю]

Инновации конечно это хорошо, но одна сверхбезопасная атомная электростанция Akkuyu будет генерировать 4800 мвт, а тут всего 3,5 мвт. Для выхода на такую же мощность понадобится 1300+ таких электростанций... это не очень хорошо для экологии.

[@patpozzuto4809]

This is the most logical comment I've read so far... BRAVO 👏👏👏👏

[@domtweed7323]

There both nuclear power: The earth's heat comes from underground nuclear decay. The question is: What kind of nuclear decay is most cost-effective in your particular area: The artificial kind, or the natural underground one. It'll depend on the depth, rock-type, but also the local supply chains/labour force you have available.

[@ФедорГеоргиевич-ь1ю]

@@domtweed7323 в любом регионе атомная электростанция выгодней и для рентабельности и для экологии. Геотермальные станции используют в очень ограниченных условиях.

[@ФедорГеоргиевич-ь1ю]

​ @domtweed7323 в любом регионе атомная электростанция выгодней и для рентабельности и для экологии. Геотермальные станции используют в очень ограниченных условиях.

[@domtweed7323]

​@@ФедорГеоргиевич-ь1юIt depends on the supply chain. America has a really bad supply chain for building new nuclear reactors (look at Vogle), making new American reactors very expensive. However, they have an extremely advanced industry in drilling very deep/long holes cheaply, because of fracking. So this could make sense in America. In, for example, Russia, the situation is the opposite. Fracking isn't very advanced, but Rusatom is absolutely brilliant at building nuclear power stations. So Russia should build nuclear power stations. So it all depends on local conditions.

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[@JohnDeNom]

This video is just PR pablum. Very little actual information.

[@leisureclub_]

Controversial journey? what the fuck is wrong with this method??? everything is now controversial??

[@587shadow]

Ai

[@inigoromon1937]

Where does the water come from? Burying drinkable wáter in the ground seems stupid to me. Build a sand power battery and don't use stupid solutions. Greenwashing. Instead, help por countries to clean their game, reduce birthrates, educate women... Whatever. Ana anti union firm posturing as a good Guy.

[@santia81]

Sounds like oil fracking to me.

[@wrath231]

Theres no way in hell it can be cost effective and it seems quite dependent on the terrain.

[@marcosorduno9203]

Works in El Salvador powers 25 percentage off there electric.....but they do have a lot less people

[@andrewday3206]

Iceland is greatly peered by geothermal. Geothermal and DLE Direct Lithium Extraction are coming online too

[@lylestavast7652]

@@andrewday3206 low 70's% of electricity in Iceland is from hydroelectric, geothermal electricity generation is in the 20's percent. Where Iceland does really well is using the geothermal resources for space and process heating, to total energy use is heavily influenced by geothermal - and that's a good place to be in regard to not needing so much imported fuels.

[@champagne_tankie]

Once the prices for drilling equipment go down (which will happen with the growing adoption of renewable energy sources) it will be a viable option in most places. You just gotta drill deep enough.

[@alberthartl8885]

geothermal electric generation has been conducted in this location for decades. This project is just using fracking to enhance the output. 3rd generation geothermal (AGS) can be built almost anywhere. Deep boreholes (5 to 10 km deep) go down to rock which is 250 to 500°C. A fluid is then circulated in a closed loop which runs a turbine. Canadian company Eavor and Massachusetts company Quaise Energy are the leaders in this field. While geothermal is more expensive than wind or solar, it is 24/7 and a fraction of the cost of nuclear.

[@Leontestedevorant]

Please think for the rest of the world too and add the metric units of measurement there. Thanks in advance.

[@AbdulDsouza]

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