Energy Cubed Traditional Cache
trustking: Moved too far away to just adjust coords..........will set up new cache site.
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Altitude is 3273'........don't spill the diatomaceous earth out of the container....it is special geocaching clay pills to keep the log dry!
Tri Global Energy is Wind, Solar, and Hybred.
Wind power is one of the fastest growing forms of new electricity generation in the U.S. In recent years, around 40% of all new generation capacity added to the electric grid in the U.S. was from wind power projects. Electric utilities are increasingly adding wind power to their power supply portfolios, as a clean, inexhaustible, and domestic source of electric generation.
Solar energy is the cleanest, most abundant, renewable energy source available. And the U.S. has some of the richest solar resources shining across the nation. Today's technology allows us to capture this power in several ways giving the public and commercial entities flexible ways to employ both the heat and light of the sun.
The greatest challenge the U.S. solar market faces is scaling up production and distribution of solar energy technology to drive the price down to be on par with traditional fossil fuel sources.
Solar energy can be produced on a distributed basis, called distributed generation, with equipment located on rooftops or on ground-mounted fixtures close to where the energy is used. Large-scale concentrating solar power systems can also produce energy at a central power plant.
There are four ways we harness solar energy: photovoltaics (converting light to electricity), heating and cooling systems (solar thermal), concentrating solar power (utility scale), and lighting. Active solar energy systems employ devices that convert the sun's heat or light to another form of energy we use. Passive solar refers to special siting, design or building materials that take advantage of the sun's position and availability to provide direct heating or lighting. Passive solar also considers the need for shading devices to protect buildings from excessive heat from the sun.
"Geothermal" literally means "heat from the earth", and heat is a form of energy. So geothermal energy is a resource that we can use to help us live productive and comfortable lives.
Geothermal Electricity. In a limited number of locations (think geysers), the earth is hot enough to generate steam that can be passed through a turbine to turn an electrical generator. This electricity can then be used at that site, or transmitted over wires into the North American electrical grid to serve distant towns and cities. So Geothermal Electricity is high-temperature geothermal energy.
Geothermal Heating and Cooling heats and air conditions homes, businesses and government facilities. Practically everywhere in North America, the temperature of the earth below the frost line remains relatively constant (close to the surface, the earth temperature does vary a little seasonally with the temperature of the atmosphere). This steady temperature profile allows the earth to be used as a heat source in the winter, and as a heat sink in the summer. Geothermal heat pumps use this characteristic to heat and air condition homes, businesses and government facilities by moving heat out of the earth and into the buildings in the winter, and by moving heat out of buildings into the earth in the summer. So, Geothermal Heating and Cooling is low-temperature geothermal energy.
Both forms of Geothermal are clean renewable forms of energy that help us to reduce our dependence on other forms of energy and reduce environmental impacts and climate change.
The Tres Amigas SuperStation will serve as the nation's first renewable energy market hub. Transmission companies and electric utilities will be able to connect to the SuperStation and purchase power from and sell power to each of the three U.S. power grids.
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