IHFC features quality score evaluations for heat flow data in 2024 report
The International Heat Flow Commission (IHFC) has published an updated set of global heat-flow data. This data, gathered from 1939 to 2024, helps scientists understand the Earth’s internal heat. The data collection is part of a global project that has been improving to ensure high-quality information since May 2021. The 2024 update includes new heat-flow measurements published since April 2023, adding to a total of 91,182 data points from 1,586 scientific publications. Most of these measurements (57 percent) come from land areas, while the rest (43 percent) are from the ocean. The IHFC explains that this comprehensive dataset is crucial for studying the Earth’s heat and contributes to our knowledge of geophysical processes.
Eavor’s substantial scaleup featured in the Narwhal List 2024
Eavor was recently ranked among the top 10 clean technology companies on the Narwhal List of 2024, a report that benchmarks Canadian scaleup companies. Among the 44 companies from Calgary featured on the list, Eavor stood out with its robust 84 percent scaleup rating, surpassing the clean technology sector’s average of 49.2 percent.
Next-Generation Geothermal called the “dark horse” of the cleantech sector
Sabine Hossenfelder, in a recent episode of her YouTube series Science News, emphasized the merits of Next-Generation Geothermal technologies, specifically spotlighting Eavor as a solution that is “so modest, you wonder why it wasn’t done a century ago.” Hossenfelder elaborated on the method of harnessing energy from hot rock, stating that it seems like “the obvious thing to do” to mitigate the effects of climate change. She cited that geoscientists estimate that the energy reserves within the upper 10 km of the Earth’s crust are sufficient to meet the world’s energy needs for several hundred million years—equivalent to 1 million billion gigawatts of energy.
