A VSHA Presentation:
Wednesday, November 1st, 2023 – 7:00-8:30 pm
Cook Street Village Activity Center
380 Cook St. Victoria, B.C.
Dr. Thomas Homer Dixon
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
the urgent need for development
zero carbon, reliable base load, low environmental impact
Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon
Executive Director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University
Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon will provide a plain-language urgent appeal for the development of geothermal energy as a clean technology for electricity generation. He will in particular describe new deep enhanced geothermal systems (or “deep EGS”) that create heat-exchange reservoirs in hot, dry rock at depths of 5,000 metres or more below Earth’s surface.
Homer-Dixon proposes that Canada become the global leader in deep EGS, but to do so, it must create strong incentives to solve the technology’s core R&D challenge: cost-effective, deep drilling through hot, hard (igneous and metamorphic) rock. Recently developed high energy drilling technology makes this feasible.
The resulting reliable-base-load geothermal electrical energy complements intermittent energy from solar and wind technology and promises a long term solution to the dwindling of our hydroelectric supply threatened by the melting of our glaciers through climate change.
