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Zanskar says AI found more geothermal sites than industry did in 30 years
‘Special Report’ anchor Bret Baier reports on efforts to advance geothermal energy production and how artificial intelligence is helping companies harness its full potential.
Geothermal energy has been around since earth’s creation and exists almost everywhere, yet harnessing its full potential has proven difficult since viable sources are often difficult to find.
“The US has a lot of it, and most of it in the US is untapped. It’s a tremendous sort of resource base that’s waiting for us to go after it,” Zanskar Co-founder Joel Edwards said.
Geothermal energy is generated by the Earth’s formation and ongoing radioactive decay. It is stored beneath the surface and accessed by drilling thousands of feet underground.
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“The great thing about geothermal energy is there’s heat underground everywhere. The deeper you go into the earth, the hotter it gets. But there are some parts, certain regions, that just have hotter rocks,” Edwards said.
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Geothermal Energy makes its way to the Earth’s surface through volcanoes, hot springs and geysers. It has been otherwise difficult to detect above ground until now.
“We have made more discoveries in three years than the industry found in 30,” Edwards said.
Geothermal company Zanskar is making the search for hot sources more accurate. The company has built artificial intelligence models that are able to detect geothermal resources and target them with deeper drilling.
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“We have found dozens of sites and they were either overlooked or they were just in areas where nobody had ever looked,” Edwards said. “Once we find these systems, we’re having much more success drilling into them because those models are better at sort of simulating all the possible orientations of a geothermal system.”
Historically geothermal production has carried risks of drilling into inefficient wells. There are safety risks in geothermal production and environmental concerns over air and water pollution. The uncertainty has caused delays in permitting and operational challenges.
“What happens is you drill moderately productive wells, marginal wells, or you drill it unproductive wells. All of those failures, they get rolled up into the total cost of a project and that drives the cost of the project up,” Edwards said.
With AI helping pinpoint geothermal hot spots, companies like Zanskar are unlocking power that’s been there all along. (ZANSKAR)
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The best geothermal resources in the U.S. are located in the west, where much of the land is owned by the federal government. The Interior Department has implemented emergency permitting procedures to accelerate reviews of geothermal projects as part of President Trump’s energy agenda.
“It takes typically like three to six, three to seven years to get these projects permitted. Luckily, in the last few years, there’s been an urgency to cut red tape,” Edwards said. “And that’s already having a material benefit for some of these earlier stage projects.”
Artificial intelligence could also help streamline the regulatory process.
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“What we have to do is work with our federal, state, and local partners to drive those solutions that you’re talking about. We cannot think of this technology as it’s happening to us. We have to partner and utilize it just like everyone else,” Exelon CEO Calvin Butler said. “A.I. should help us all become more efficient at what we do and get better at.”
The geothermal industry has similar challenges and risks as oil and gas. The Society of Petroleum Engineers began promoting the use of A.I. as early as 2009. It has helped improve exploration, drilling and development. Studies show some of the same techniques could help geothermal production.
“It sort of feels like where oil and gas was maybe 100 plus years ago,” Edwards said. “We didn’t know how much of it was out there and so forth. That’s what geothermal feels like. Like it just feels like we’ve barely explored for it. We’ve got a little bit of it going right now. We kind of understand it. But now the market is out there and the market’s like, we want this stuff.”
Geothermal energy is everywhere—but finding it hasn’t been easy. Now, artificial intelligence is changing the game, accelerating discoveries that once took decades. (ZANSKAR)
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As artificial intelligence helps fast track new resources, there are still concerns over its immediate impact on the electric grid.
“It’s a challenge, but it’s a huge opportunity. And that is what we are most excited about, the opportunity to be part of this journey, this next wave of the energy transformation, because we can’t just look at it as a challenge and say, we don’t know what to do,” Butler said. “We’re partnering with our technology partners and saying, what can we do to make this a win-win for everyone?”
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Awe is valued in Western wellness for its health benefits but can evoke mixed feelings across cultures. Research indicates it may not universally enhance wellbeing, complicating its application in mental health and leadership.
Key Points
- Awe has become an emotional currency in Western wellness, praised for enhancing mental and physical health, social interactions, and prosocial behavior. However, it can evoke both positive and negative feelings across cultures.
- Cross-cultural research reveals that while awe is often positive in Western contexts, it can induce fear and tension in cultures like China. This challenges the notion of awe as a universally positive emotion.
- Studies with over 2,500 diary entries show that cultural context significantly influences the emotional response to awe, raising important questions about its application in mental health programs and marketing worldwide.
Awe has increasingly become recognized as an essential emotional currency within Western wellness communities, celebrated for its potential to enhance mental and physical health and foster improved social interactions. Research indicates that experiences of awe are linked to positive outcomes such as increased prosocial behavior, heightened curiosity, humility, and overall well-being, as well as potential reductions in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. However, cross-cultural investigations reveal that awe does not elicit universally positive responses; rather, it can evoke both uplifting and distressing emotions. This dichotomy raises critical questions about the universal applicability of awe as a beneficial emotional experience.
In a recent series of cross-cultural studies co-authored by researchers from various academic backgrounds, evidence has emerged suggesting that awe’s emotional impact may differ significantly across cultural contexts. Utilizing data from daily emotion diaries and physiological measurements, the studies reveal that while awe is often perceived positively in Western cultures, particularly in the United States, individuals in China may experience awe accompanied by feelings of fear or apprehension. This challenges the longstanding assumption that awe invariably cultivates connection or enhances well-being.
The implications of these findings extend to several domains, including mental health initiatives, leadership training, and global marketing strategies, necessitating a reevaluation of how awe is conceptualized and utilized across cultures. As psychologists Dacher Keltner and Jonathan Haidt define awe as an emotion resulting from encounters with vast and mind-bending experiences, the research underscores that the initial spark of awe may be consistent globally, yet the subsequent emotional response can diverge dramatically depending on cultural interpretations.
The first study, which analyzed over 2,500 diary entries from a cohort of 166 university students across China and the United States over a two-week period, serves to illustrate these nuanced emotional variances. This critical exploration of awe invites a broader understanding of emotional intelligence across cultures, highlighting the necessity for sensitivity in applying awe in various contexts.
Read the original article : Reinterpreting ‘awe’: why cross‑cultural emotional intelligence needs to be handled with care
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