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...High power costs and their benefits With partner origin energy, a big Australian oil and gas company, Geodynamics now plans to build enough wells to run a 50-MW commercial power plant by 2011. That feat will need much deeper wells and better water flows. If it works, Geodynamics will build more wells to produce 500 MW - about the output of a modern gas-turbine power plant...
...real trick will be extracting enough hot water to make the 50-MW plant work. If the engineering challenges of great depth and heat can be overcome, the company will follow a cookie-cutter approach and build nine more sets of wells to produce...
...Innamincka, Leon Cartledge has his fingers crossed for the pioneering project to succeed. He thinks a hot-rocks power plant could draw curious tourists to sample his beer and oysters. Throw in free electricity, and "a business like this might even stand to make a profit...
...biggest gift of all: a $128 million hydroelectric-dam project that when completed will provide enough power to light 1.7 million Afghan homes, for about a quarter of the population. It has some 200 immediate job vacancies that could provide income to hamlets like Madin's and plant the roots of a thriving community. But the Taliban prevents potential workers from even approaching the dam site. Shervington believes he needs at least another 100 troops to drive out the insurgents in his area, but foreign forces are already stretched thin in Helmand province, and other areas have taken priority. Without...
...Soviet Union invaded, and the American project came to a halt. Decades of war and neglect ensued, and the power plant fell into disrepair. By the time U.S. engineers returned to the powerhouse in 2002, it was squeezing out just 3 MW, and even that only because of the efforts of the head Afghan engineer, Rasul Baqi. He and the few remaining engineers improvised, hammering crude approximations of broken parts out of scrap metal and piecing together electrical lines with barbed wire. He never missed a day of work, he says, not even during the worst of the fighting, when...