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RE: Helping Communities 'Go Green'
Our dependence on fossil fuel has led us inhabiting in this polluted world. Either because of the diminishing supply of fossil fuel or to prevent this massive environment pollution, we have to completely rely on renewable energy very soon.
Solar is the most promising form of current renewable tech. And geothermal can really be a good source of energy where temperature is relatively higher beneath the ground. May be somewhere near a volcano.
U have done an impressive assessment of potential renewable implementations on ur locality...!
I've worked on renewable with the help of HOMER previously. Its good to see the work done from the viewpoint of a geologist..!
Best regards..! 🙌
~ Christina
Fortunately we are slowly making progress towards a more renewable future. There is definitely a lot of promise in solar, but I would not discount geothermal as a widespread solution. People tend to think about geothermal in the traditional sense of volcanism, but shallow geothermal heat exchange systems can be installed practically anywhere and can greatly reduce heating and cooling expenses. I'll be doing another article on this in the future!
I have never heard of HOMER, but it appears to be fairly powerful (though also proprietary and a little expensive). It is good to know what else is out there in terms of software. I appreciate your comments and support!
yes.. thts another good scope of geothermal. hope to see u writing abt tht soon..!!! yah, HOMER is basically used for microgrid simulation, it acpts many forms of renewable and has feature of feasibility analysis too. A bit expensive, bt there is a free trail version if u want to explore the software.