by Stacy Feldman -
Jun 24th, 2008 
The Economist touches on something big in its cover story on clean energy this week: "geothermal could be hot."
From the piece:
"The recoverable heat in rock under the United States is the equivalent of 2,000 years-worth of the country’s current energy consumption."
Yes! The MIT researchers that crunched those numbers have been beating this drum for a while. (And so have we.)
And now for a related and interesting progress report.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service have just initiated a public comment period on their draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for geothermal leasing all over the American West, including Alaska.
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