649570 news 1628772121 1628772121 Heat from beneath the earth'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’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.

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