{"649570":{"#nid":"649570","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Harnessing the Earth\u2019s Energy Potential: Geosystems Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHeat from beneath the earth\u0026#39;s surface provides an essentially unlimited source of clean, renewable energy. Recent studies estimate that in the United States alone, 100 gigawatts of cost-competitive capacity could be provided by geothermal in the next 50 years. Researchers in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering are developing technologies to significantly reduce the cost and improve the potential of this enormous, domestic resource for large-scale power generation. Areas of expertise include: material characterization; constitutive and micromechanical modeling; soil-analog laboratory modeling; natural and man-made hazard mitigation; engineered soils; biotechnology; geotechnical aspects of resource recovery; and foundation design, slope stability, and excavation support.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Researchers in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering are developing technologies to significantly reduce the cost and improve the potential of this enormous, domestic resource for large-scale power generation."}],"uid":"35801","created_gmt":"2021-08-12 12:42:01","changed_gmt":"2021-08-12 12:42:01","author":"vkaza3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-03-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-03-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"367481","name":"SEI Energy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188599","name":"geosystems engineering"},{"id":"188600","name":"energy potential"},{"id":"188601","name":"geothermal"},{"id":"177757","name":"material characterization"},{"id":"178759","name":"excavation"},{"id":"188602","name":"resource recovery"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"},{"id":"39491","name":"Renewable Bioproducts"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}