Go back fifty years ago and you will see the anti-nuke-anti-coal “Greenies” coming up with all sorts of hare-brained ideas on how to produce “clean” energy.
One magazine in the 1970s, ponied up with $10,000 dollars of their own money to build a “perpetual motion machine”. It didn’t work.
I remember reading in Power Engineering magazine the plans for a geo-thermal plant in New Mexico. They bought the generator, all necessary equipment, and drilled the hole.
They did not get enough steam from the ground to make it work and a year later I saw all that equipment for sale in the same magazine.
Ruy Dias de Bivar wrote: ... “I remember reading in Power Engineering magazine the plans for a geo-thermal plant in New Mexico. They bought the generator, all necessary equipment, and drilled the hole.”
“They did not get enough steam from the ground to make it work and a year later I saw all that equipment for sale in the same magazine.”
Ha, I went out there and loaded it up on trucks, Near Jemes Springs, NM. Yes the dry hot rock project. Acccording to a reliable sourse, the scientists and engineers from Los Alamos would not listen to the drillers who understood the down hole conditions and they ruined the two wells they were drilling trying to make a “U-tube” in the Earth. Water in one, steam out from the other.
They spent money, serious money for years. The driller I knew said it would have worked it not for the Los Alamos scientists interfering and screwing up both wells.
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