{"id":20008621,"date":"2014-07-31T13:55:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T08:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thethirdpole.net\/?p=8621"},"modified":"2020-12-10T22:11:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T16:41:29","slug":"himalayan-geothermal-potential-untapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/energy\/himalayan-geothermal-potential-untapped\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge potential of geothermal energy in the Himalayas still largely untapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #444444\">Hundreds of gigawatts of geothermal\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #0fa4d4\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scidev.net\/south-asia\/environment\/energy\/\">energy<\/a><span style=\"color: #444444\">\u00a0remain locked up in the Himalayas because of\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #0fa4d4\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scidev.net\/south-asia\/environment\/\">environmental<\/a><span style=\"color: #444444\">\u00a0considerations and lack of investment in\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #0fa4d4\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scidev.net\/south-asia\/enterprise\/rd\/\">research<\/a><span style=\"color: #444444\">, say international geologists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"color: #444444\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444\">\u201cI hope lessons from elsewhere in the world can help harness these resources in the Himalayas,\u201d Geo Moore, a geologist at the Energy and Geosciences Institute, University of Utah, told a conference on sustainable resource development held last month in Leh, Jammu and Kashmir state, India.<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444\" \/><br style=\"color: #444444\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444\">Geothermal energy, derived from heat stored in the earth, is considered to be renewable energy. The world currently has 11.13 gigawatts of it installed in 24 countries with the US leading with 3.15 gigawatts. The Philippines and Indonesia follow with 1.90 and 1.30 gigawatts respectively.<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444\" \/><br style=\"color: #444444\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444\">China has, since 1976, been operating a 25 megawatt plant in Yangbaijan, Tibet, exploiting geothermal water at a temperature of 160 degrees Celsius. Moore says that while this is a good example, the pal in adjacent Jammu and Kashmir is even greater.<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444\" \/><br style=\"color: #444444\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444\">\u201cThe hottest and best known of the geothermal systems are in Jammu and Kashmir, which form part of the northwest Himalayan \u2018geothermal province\u2019 that extends through Nepal and Tibet,\u201d Moore says.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444\" \/><br style=\"color: #444444\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444\">According to Jonathan Craig, honorary professor at University College, London, and the University of Jammu, the Puga hot spring area, located at the junction of the Indian and Tibetan plates in Ladakh, has the greatest geothermal energy potential on the Indian subcontinent.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444\" \/><br style=\"color: #444444\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444\">\u201cA 20 megawatt geothermal plant at Puga could save three million litres of diesel burnt annually in the region at a cost of approximately US$ 2 million,\u201d says Craig who has\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #0fa4d4\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0012825213000949\">published a paper<\/a><span style=\"color: #444444\">\u00a0on the subject in Earth Science Review in May 2013.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444\" \/><br style=\"color: #444444\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444\">Such a plant, says Craig, would eliminate the need for traditional kerosene stoves and gas-operated heaters during winter and prevent the emission of some 28,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444\" \/><br style=\"color: #444444\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444\">Brinda Thusu, from the department of earth sciences, University College of London, says that Puga is the most promising geothermal field in India as it has hot springs, mud pools, and sulphur and borax deposits covering an area extending over 15 square kilometres.<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444\" \/><br style=\"color: #444444\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444\">Glacial mass balance calculations indicate that there is sufficient melt water available to recharge both shallow and deep reservoirs in the Puga geothermal field, Thusu said.<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444\" \/><br style=\"color: #444444\" \/><i style=\"color: #444444\">A version of this piece was first published on\u00a0<\/i><i style=\"color: #444444\"><a style=\"color: #0fa4d4\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scidev.net\/south-asia\/environment\/news\/himalayan-geothermal-potential-untapped.htmlYangbaijan,%20Tibet\">SciDev.Net<\/a><\/i><span style=\"color: #444444\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is already operating one plant, but vast amounts of geothermal energy still lie untapped in the Himalayan region<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20000038,"featured_media":20014297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[757],"tags":[20000022,585,20000237],"hashtags":[],"country":[20000110,20000111,20000113],"class_list":["post-20008621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-himalayas","tag-renewables","tag-sustainable-development","country-china","country-india","country-nepal"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - 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