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 California Could Be Powered Completely by Geothermal Energy Published: Feb 23, 09 Comments: 1 Views: 1,368 After years of dealing with brownouts and being at the mercy of other states for electricity, California may finally have a way out. While a lot of attention has been given to the new solar power plants being built in California, many scientists have been trying to point California a different direction. Instead of spending billions of dollars creating high tech solar plants, these scientists want to take advantage of California’s abundant geothermal energy supply. Thanks to a correction of a previous government oversight, California now has access to enough geothermal energy to power the entire state. To think California will finally be energy independent. Some photos by Flickr user Meadi.  If ten percent of the land now open to leasing is eventually developed with similar yields to existing leases, geothermal production would increase 2000%. That is equivalent to roughly 243,000 MW, or roughly enough to power the whole state of California. This is just from the lands in California — the Programmatic Geothermal Environmental Impact Study (PGEIS) also made decisions for 11 other western states. And, while that sounds like a lot of land to give over development, geothermal power only uses a tiny fraction of each lease for power production.
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