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Argentina declares 2017 Renewable Energy Year; 20% electricity share by 2025
Argentina has declared 2017 as the ‘Renewable Energy Year’ as the country looks to increase awareness about the advantages of renewable energy and the important of sustainability. A decree issued by the government calls for energy diversification through the use of renewable energy sources in the electricity generation as well as thermal energy sector. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesConic Capping should be at the top of that priority list of renewable energy. Time to build those devices and put them over the 800 volcanos and get unlimited power for all Mendoza Province!
Feb 01st, 2017 - 05:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Altenatively capture all the hot air spouted by Nostrils Brarsehole etc and feed it through an air source heat pump.
Feb 01st, 2017 - 05:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't you mean “comic capping” fidelito? You know, the funny little hats that your sophisticated extraterrestrial friends wear.
Feb 01st, 2017 - 06:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ignoring the Anglo fauna howling above, conic capping of Explosivity Index low, Release Dynamics steady volcanoes (meaning, mainly non-explosive volcano, and rate of energy release fairly constant instead of a build-up and then later sudden release), is a clean and safe way of harnessing the heat, chemical, and water vapor energy of the Payunia cones. Just tapping the entire energy of one of these could power 2000 homes every day for 7 months.
Feb 02nd, 2017 - 09:53 am - Link - Report abuse +2Yes to Conic Capping, yes to Vaca Muerto conventional oil and gas extraction, NO to fracking until proven geologically safe! Vaca Muerta for LIFE!
Is this Conic Capping a real thing or did you just make it up? Sounds like sci-fi...
Feb 02nd, 2017 - 10:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Conic capping is a flatulence control mechanism that has still not been approved for use during argie legislative sessions.
Feb 02nd, 2017 - 01:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Fidelito's concern for avoiding fracking in Argentina seems a bit tardy since YPF is already using the process.
But seriously, Argentina has been talking about developing geothermal energy here since the 1970s but talk is cheap and nobody in Argentina could figure out how to do it successfully on any sort of meaningful scale. In about 2013 the Kirchner and Neuquen provincial governments finally got a Canadian company, Geothermal One to agree to start geothermal development. You know, because the argies hate the anglos and their technology.
But then Kirchnerism raised its ugly head and convinced them that doing business in Argentina was not such a hot idea after all. Among the impediments to actual construction was the problem of CFK's currency controls. Geothermal One cancelled their participation after CFK nationalised/expropriated/stole Repsol's share of YPF and the Canadian company could see the writing on the wall and so they left. Geothermal One was also working projects in Mendoza (Peteroa and Los Molles Projects) but they gave up on those as well.
Other foreign energy companies have likewise become very gun-shy about major investment for development in Argentina so the chances that any large scale geothermal projects will succeed are still dubious. Rather ironically, even though geothermal in Argentina has been touted as “clean” their own (native argie) efforts to develop pilot geothermal plants have resulted in considerable pollution and objections from nearby communities.
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