Comments on: Buy Ormat Technologies (ORA)

By: eq2home

eq2home — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:05:03 +0000

What do you think of the Class Action Lawsuit; 25% drop in share price; and oil prices rising?

By: aspensnowmaker

aspensnowmaker — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:54:10 +0000

yep , this is a winner. geothermal is hot ,, its everywhere and gonna be huge. i have personally witnessed in 22 years of snowmaker in aspen, the climate change. it is really happening folks.

By: tmercier

tmercier — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:09:20 +0000

Geothermal heat pump systems are being installed in various locations around the U.S. My company has installed several of these. The equipment is generally available from larger HVAC equipment manufacturers – Carrier, Florida Heat Pump, Trane, Trane, Climatemaster. Geothermal heat pumps are but a small portion of the business for Carrier and Trane, and a larger portion for Florida Heat Pump and Climatemaster. Water source heat pumps have been around for years. Geothermal water source heat pumps are a subset designed to handle lower inlet water temperatures. The heat source (winter) and heat sink (summer) is a field of geothermal wells drilled several hundred feet down into the earth. The wells are bored, and pipe loops are installed down the bore holes. Then the bore holes are grouted with bentonite clay to promote good thermal conduction. All of this technology is pretty old school. The systems are relatively expensive, and a lot of land is generally required for the well field to handle a building load of any size. The US Green Building Council’s LEED program is a chief driver of the applications of these systems, offering building owners “certification” at several levels for sustainability and resource efficiency.

By: lotteollie

lotteollie — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:37:05 +0000

I was going to buy this based upon Jim’s recommendation. That PE ration looks pretty high. I don’t see a race to this type of solution. What do you guys think, wait a while to see if it drops?

By: tronneberg

tronneberg — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:31:13 +0000

Jim, How about geothermal heat pumps-both commercial and residential. Any ideas to play that market?