Geothermal Energy and Climate Change

2016 ◽  
pp. 189-190
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Geothermal Energy

scholarly journals Renewable Energy Sources in a Post-Socialist Transitional Environment: The Influence of Social Geographic Factors on Potential Utilization of Very Shallow Geothermal Energy within Heating Systems in Small Serbian Town of Ub

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2739 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikola Jocić ◽  
Johannes Müller ◽  
Tea Požar ◽  
David Bertermann
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Geothermal Energy ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Heating System ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Energetic Stability ◽  
Shallow Geothermal Energy ◽  
Very Shallow Geothermal Energy

Energetic stability is a precondition for a regular functioning of society and economy. Actual climate change raised the awareness of population and policy makers about the importance of exploited energy sources. Renewable energy sources are revealed as the solution which should satisfy both needs—a need for energetic stability, as well as a need for producing ‘clean’ and ‘sustainable’ energy, and therefore reduce humans’ influence on the climate change. Very shallow geothermal energy offers wide range for utilization, among others for heating and cooling living spaces. This article shows potentials of low temperature heating system networks in a small Serbian town of Ub. In addition to technical possibilities, this article combines geographical and social, as well as political and economic circumstances in the town of Ub, which emerge as a result of a complex (post-socialist) transitional vortex.

scholarly journals Evaluating Climate Change Mitigation Options in the Philippines with Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Michael Angelo B. Promentilla ◽  
Carla Angeline M. De la Cruz ◽  
Katrina C. Angeles ◽  
Kathrina G. Tan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Solar Energy ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Geothermal Energy ◽  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Economic Viability ◽  
Social Acceptability ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Environmental Effectiveness ◽  
Hierarchy Process

The environmental problem of climate change is an issue that needs to be addressed worldwide. As the electricity-generating power sector is the largest contributor of CO2 in the country, low-carbon technologies or sustainable energy systems are being considered as viable alternatives to reduce the CO2 emissions from this sector. These are fossil-based power plants with carbon capture and storage (F-CCS) technology, nuclear energy (NE) and renewable energy (RE) technologies, particularly solar energy (SE), wind energy (WE), hydroelectricity (HE), geothermal energy (GE) and biomass (BE). However, successful implementation of any of these CCMOs depends not only on the technical and economic aspect but also the socio-political aspect of the project. This study therefore proposes an analytical decision modeling framework to evaluate these options by incorporating the subjective judgment of stakeholders. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used to structure the problem and quantify the relative preference of each option with respect to four criteria namely environmental effectiveness (EE), economic viability (EV), technical implementability (TI), and social acceptability (SA).Results from the decision model indicate that the most important criterion is environmental effectiveness, and the least important is social acceptability. With respect to environmental effectiveness, their most preferred CCMO was solar energy whereas their least preferred is nuclear energy mainly because of the risk posed by the generated nuclear wastes. With respect to economic viability, their most preferred CCMO was geothermal energy, and the least preferred was nuclear energy. With respect to technical implementability, the respondents gave the highest preference weight on geothermal energy and the least preferred is nuclear energy. With respect to social acceptability, the most preferred was wind energy and again, the least preferred was nuclear energy.

scholarly journals Identifying potential geothermal reservoirs in Denmark

1969 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 19-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Mathiesen ◽  
Lars Henrik Nielsen ◽  
Torben Bidstrup
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
Geothermal Energy ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Security Of Supply ◽  
Geothermal Reservoirs ◽  
High Degree

Concerns about climate change have led to increased interest in geothermal energy as one way of reducing the consumption of fossil fuels and thus limit CO2 emissions. Use of geothermal energy is based on well-established technologies, a high degree of security of supply, and little visual or noise inconvenience. More than one hundred plants have been established in Europe.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document