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| Living green: Project with ²ÝÁñÉçÇø professor looks underground for Alaska energy | Pete Stelling, assistant professor of geology at Western Washington University, is working to make the Alaskan island of Akutan less dependent on diesel fuel by tapping the island’s renewable geothermal energy. |
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| NW Forestland Could Be Leased For Geothermal Development | The volcanic ridges of the Cascades have long been poked and prodded by people who want to know what kind of geothermal energy they'll find beneath the surface. |
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| Professor researches geothermal energy options | Diesel fuel from Tacoma travels nearly 2,000 miles by barge to reach the island of Akutan, an Alaskan island in the Aleutian chain, which extends into the Pacific Ocean. Residents there go through 4.2 million gallons of fuel each year, and pay 32 and a half cents per kilowatt hour to power their… |
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| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Geologist Pete Stelling Researching Geothermal Power Sources in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands | |||
| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø faculty find overwhelming scientific evidence to support global warming | On March 26, 2013, a long-retired faculty member of our department, Don Easterbrook, presented his opinions on human-caused global climate change to the Washington State Senate Energy, Environment and Telecommunications Committee at the invitation of the committee chair Sen. Doug Ericksen, R.-… |