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Chena Hot Springs’ Bernie Karl in interview on YouTube

Chena Hot Springs’ Bernie Karl in interview on YouTube Snapshot from video interview with Bernie Karl of Chena Hot Springs (source: Carbonnationfilm via YouTube)
Alexander Richter 3 Aug 2011

A video interview with Bernie Karl of Chena Hot Springs in Alaska, a small and low temperature geothermal project with power generation and heating supply. A unique sample of geothermal utilization.

A recent video piece on YouTube talks with Bernie Karl of Chena Hot Springs in Alaska. Always a character, but one can hardly be more passionate than him describing what geothermal offers him and his business in the state of Alaska.

Using water of around 80 centigrades, he produces geothermal power at around 5 US cents per kW/ hour. Using diesel that would cost him 30 US cents per kW/ hour. Having not only a hot spring pool, greenhouses but also an “ice structure”, he is fore sure inventive.

Link: YouTube