Compared to solar and wind, geothermal energy is still a small fraction of the renewable energy market. It’s holding its own, however, and it’s likely to become a much bigger player in the not-so-distant future. “The resource is enormous,” said Karl Gawell, executive director of the Geothermal Energy Association. “We’re looking for how to solve our energy problems, and this is a huge resource we’re only starting to tap.” Geothermal energy is based on a primary fact about the earth: It’s hot at the core. The farther you drill down, the hotter things get.
Geothermal heat pumps provide "Triple E" (Energy Independence & Security, Environmental Stability and Economic Prosperity)solutions for a number of the problems plaguing our Nation and the World at this time. This technology uses the "Energy Under our Feet" the energy we already own to heat, cool and provide water heating to residential, institutional and commercial facilities throughout the world. This technology has the ability to not only lessen our dependence on imported oil, it can reduce the strain on our already over loaded grid system and create or retain jobs in the process. In my "Road to 30%" document I show that achieving the goal of a 30% market penitration we would need to creat or retain over 5 million jobs.Once again, geothermal heat pumps do not need the wind to blow or the sun to shine, they work 24/7, 365 days a year.
I spend quite a bit of time recruiting and placing people in the right positions...and just like this article indicates, there are loads of displaced skilled construction trades-people out there. I've been getting a heavy increase in requests for those skilled in geothermal heating and cooling trades...this includes HVAC, plumbers, well drillers and electricians. So I've been looking for the schools or the pool from which I can pull them. A local college has started a comprehensive Green Trades Curruculum, so I checked out their book selection. Wow!~ I've gotta tell you, I picked up Geothermal HVAC, and didn't set it down for two solid days...and I don't like to read... Maybe it's my job (the recruiting thing), but this book rocks...better yet, I'd stake my career on this technology being the next really big thing...like dot-com big...
Here's the thing; the colleges and trade schools are picking this book up, because it lays out decades of technology in real, simple and fun language with lots of pics. I learned what I needed to, without having to learn the, "square root of the inverse of the fluid flow..." Google "Geothermal Book"
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Heating Up: Jobs in the Geothermal Industry
Posted by: Vivian Wagner October 19, 2011 08:39 AMCompared to solar and wind, geothermal energy is still a small fraction of the renewable energy market. It’s holding its own, however, and it’s likely to become a much bigger player in the not-so-distant future. “The resource is enormous,” said Karl Gawell, executive director of the Geothermal Energy Association. “We’re looking for how to solve our energy problems, and this is a huge resource we’re only starting to tap.” Geothermal energy is based on a primary fact about the earth: It’s hot at the core. The farther you drill down, the hotter things get.
Here's the thing; the colleges and trade schools are picking this book up, because it lays out decades of technology in real, simple and fun language with lots of pics. I learned what I needed to, without having to learn the, "square root of the inverse of the fluid flow..." Google "Geothermal Book"