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...dusty patch of Saudi desert. Instead, the 2,600-m-long steel drill is boring deep into a picturesque corner of Tuscany, fabled land of Renaissance frescoes and Chianti Classico. And the search is not for crude oil, but for boiling underground wells that can produce clean steam energy. The central Italian region happens to be the world's unrivaled mecca of geothermal energy production. In 1904 the first experiment ever in steam-powered electricity was conducted in Larderello, when five light bulbs were lit by a dynamo propelled by geothermal liquid. Nine years later, the first steam-generated power...
...economy was running at full steam and phrases such as venture capital and dot-com were on the tip of everyone’s tongue...
...Full Steam Ahead...
Many University initiatives and projects are continuing full steam ahead...
...while the plant began to provide chilled water and steam in 1981, the engines—whose purpose was to produce electricity—could not yet be turned on, pending a final ruling from the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) on the DEQE decision, which had been appealed once again by local activists. Because the plant was only partially operational, its co-generation cost savings remained unrealized as MATEP’s price tag swelled to $230 million...