{"id":15391,"date":"2025-03-26T01:22:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T01:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/theyre-in-hot-water-in-idaho-heres-why-thats-a-good-thing\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T01:22:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T01:22:38","slug":"theyre-in-hot-water-in-idaho-heres-why-thats-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/theyre-in-hot-water-in-idaho-heres-why-thats-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"They\u2019re in Hot Water in Idaho. Here\u2019s Why That\u2019s a Good Thing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-1lsv4am e6idgb70\">50 States, 50 Fixes<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-7nag3i e1wiw3jv0\">Nearly 500 buildings in the state capital get their heat from a clean, renewable source located deep in the ground.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It\u2019s pretty easy to get into hot water in Boise. After all, it\u2019s in Idaho, a state filled with hundreds of hot springs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The city has tapped into that naturally hot water to create the largest municipally run geothermal system in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Nearly 500 Boise businesses, government buildings and homes \u2014 as well as hospital and university buildings, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boisestatepublicradio.org\/environment\/2016-04-28\/how-boises-geothermal-system-built-in-the-1890s-still-serves-much-of-downtown\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">City Hall and a Y.M.C.A<\/a>. \u2014 are warmed by heat drawn directly from hot water reservoirs, or aquifers, below ground. The Idaho Statehouse, in Boise, is the only one in the United States to use geothermal heat. The heat even warms some sidewalks in the winter, to melt the snow, and raises the temperature in hot tubs.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">50 States, 50 Fixes<\/strong> is a series about local solutions to environmental problems. More to come this year.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Renewable, reliable and relatively free of pollution, geothermal heating is possible in Boise because of fault lines that expose groundwater to hot rocks, heating water to around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, or about 77 degrees Celsius. The water is drawn from wells in nearby foothills into a closed-loop network of pipes that reach into buildings, before going back to the aquifer to be heated again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In each building, the geothermal heat is transferred to water in separate adjoining pipes, which distribute the heat throughout the building.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe pump the water up, we borrow the heat for buildings, and then we put it right back in the aquifer again,\u201d said Tina Riley, Boise\u2019s geothermal development coordinator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The number of buildings the city of Boise heats this way has grown more than sixfold in the last 40 years, with more growth on the way. One result of the expansion is cleaner air. In 2024, city officials calculated that geothermal heat had resulted in 6,500 fewer metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually, the equivalent of removing 1,500 cars from the road each year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere is a lot of demand for clean, affordable, local energy,\u201d Ms. Riley said. \u201cThere\u2019s a degree of energy independence that comes with this as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Boiseans began using this natural resource to heat buildings in the 1890s, after drilling wells into aquifers that yielded hundreds of thousands of gallons of piping hot water a day. The water heated pools and baths at the local swimming pool, a Victorian mansion belonging to the head of the water company and, eventually, hundreds of homes in an area that was christened the Boise Warm Springs Water District.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Things might\u2019ve ended there were it not for the oil crisis in the 1970s, which prompted officials to seek a more affordable form of energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAt that point in time, the Boise Warm Springs District had been thriving for almost 100 years,\u201d Ms. Riley said. \u201cSo that\u2019s what we looked at to then say, \u2018Let\u2019s do the same thing.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Today, there are four separately run geothermal water systems in Boise: one run by the city, another by the Boise Warm Springs District and two more that serve the Capitol and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs buildings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The city\u2019s system is operated as a utility, funded by the sale of water rather than by taxpayers. Ms. Riley said the price of the heat was roughly comparable to that of natural gas, depending on the efficiency of buildings, but cost less when used in tandem with heat pumps.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Over in the Boise Warm Springs Water District, Scott Lewis, a technician, said that geothermal heat was especially cost-effective for warming old Victorian homes that hadn\u2019t been weatherized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It all amounts to less stress on the power grid because it uses minimal electricity, he said. It costs the district $1,800 a month to power the water pumps that provide heat to more than one million square feet of space. Expansion of the geothermal networks has been limited by what the aquifer can provide, but Mr. Lewis said the district was looking to add another 30 homes to the network to help meet demand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt is actually very desired, especially around this area,\u201d he said. \u201cWe find a lot of people are really environmentally conscious around here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The heating system has even made Boise a destination, drawing visitors from Iceland, Croatia and Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe\u2019ve had people from all over the world,\u201d Mr. Lewis said. \u201cWe love just letting everybody know about our little geothermal system that we have here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/25\/climate\/boise-idaho-geothermal.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50 States, 50 Fixes Nearly 500 buildings in the state capital get their heat from a clean, renewable source located<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[4892,4891,4889,4169,4890,822],"class_list":["post-15391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-aquifers","tag-boise-idaho","tag-geothermal-power","tag-heating","tag-hot-springs","tag-renewable-energy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>They\u2019re in Hot Water in Idaho. 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