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Extreme geothermal activity discovered beneath New Zealand’s Southern Alps
Science Daily ^ | 6/1/2017 | Rupert Sutherland, et al

Posted on 06/03/2017 6:45:31 AM PDT by JimSEA

An international team, including University of Southampton scientists, has found unusually high temperatures, greater than 100°C, close to Earth's surface in New Zealand -- a phenomenon typically only seen in volcanic areas such as Iceland or Yellowstone, USA.

The researchers made the discovery while boring almost a kilometre into the Alpine Fault, the major tectonic boundary between the Australian and Pacific plates -running the length of the country's South Island. The team was working to better understand what happens at a tectonic plate boundary in the build-up to a large earthquake.

The Deep Fault Drilling Project (DFDP) borehole, was drilled at Whataroa to the north of Franz Josef Glacier and discovered extremely hot, highly pressured groundwater flowing near to the fault line. Water at temperatures of more than 100°C is normally only found at depths of over three kilometres, but in this case was encountered at just over 600m depth.

In an article published in the international journal Nature, computer models are used show these high temperatures result from a combination of the uplift of hot rocks along the tectonic plate boundary and groundwater flow caused by high mountains close to the Alpine Fault.

(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...


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KEYWORDS: geology; tectonics
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To: freedumb2003

Choked on my Covfefe !


21 posted on 06/03/2017 7:35:20 AM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: JimSEA
so bad it is funny and entertaining.

Same goes for most 50s-60s sci-fi films and TV shows. But, as you say, the over all entertainment value. Dwarfs most sci-fi stuff today, IMO.

22 posted on 06/03/2017 7:35:44 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal: details at my FR home page)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I might have that one. Will check later.

In the meantime, this one from 2008 was pretty good, IMO.

Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jnjl_3m-Ig


23 posted on 06/03/2017 7:39:17 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal: details at my FR home page)
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To: Steely Tom

I remember Power Engineering magazine having a glowing report on a power plant going in in New Mexico which would use geo-thermal.

They figured what they needed, bought the equipment including the turbine-generator, set it all up, drilled the hole.

All the equipment was up for sale in a later edition of the magazine. They didn’t get enough heat out of the hole to make anything work.


24 posted on 06/03/2017 7:47:33 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: ETL

With musical accompaniment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ9W2pZwvlY


25 posted on 06/03/2017 7:48:11 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: JimSEA

Trump’s fault for leaving the Paris Accord!


26 posted on 06/03/2017 8:19:52 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (120+ days without Hilliarly/Huma as POTUS! Covfefe President Trump for this great reality, each day!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
All the equipment was up for sale in a later edition of the magazine. They didn’t get enough heat out of the hole to make anything work.

Irrelevant. The main thing is that a Secretary of Energy, a passel of Undersecretaries, Assistant Secretaries, Deputy Assistant Undersecretaries, and Directors, not to mention a planeload of congressmen, got to spend 4-6 years on an A-list conference circuit, jetting around the world to saving the planet conferences at five-star hotels. This is the basic UN/international NGO/inter-governmental working group model. The success of the underlying project is actually quite a secondary concern, and in any event ought not to occur too quickly, before everyone has sated their wanderlust.

27 posted on 06/03/2017 8:24:22 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: sphinx
Irrelevant. The main thing is that a Secretary of Energy, a passel of Undersecretaries, Assistant Secretaries, Deputy Assistant Undersecretaries, and Directors, not to mention a planeload of congressmen, got to spend 4-6 years on an A-list conference circuit, jetting around the world to saving the planet conferences at five-star hotels. This is the basic UN/international NGO/inter-governmental working group model. The success of the underlying project is actually quite a secondary concern, and in any event ought not to occur too quickly, before everyone has sated their wanderlust.

With your kind permission, I will be stealing the bolded section to include in my next editorial page submission debunking the warmists' ramblings in our local Gannett newsrag.

28 posted on 06/03/2017 8:46:23 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: ichabod1; shibumi

29 posted on 06/03/2017 8:49:30 AM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: JimSEA

Square mile for square mile the most beautiful country on Earth. But as with the American West, such beauty was formed by unimaginably powerful natural forces and humans are just temporarily along for the thrill ride.


30 posted on 06/03/2017 8:57:56 AM PDT by katana
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To: Steely Tom
Granted, in New Zealand they can probably find hotter reservoirs if they look, but economical electric generation requires fairly high temperatures, at least with current technology.

My assumption was a more accessible source of hotter temperatures or steam/water transfer. Not sure if that is feasible. Thank you for the info, particularly regarding the massive Titanic turbine and how modern ones differ.

31 posted on 06/03/2017 9:54:17 AM PDT by montag813
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To: JimSEA

Impose taxes on the hot spot. It’ll die down.


32 posted on 06/03/2017 10:01:20 AM PDT by lurk (TEat)
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To: ETL

When seeking a lot of hot sure, look no further than ManBearPig.


33 posted on 06/03/2017 10:07:22 AM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: JimRed

Feel free. No attribution needed. But of course, if you win a Pulitzer for commentary, I want a slice of the cash.


34 posted on 06/03/2017 10:15:55 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
All the equipment was up for sale in a later edition of the magazine. They didn’t get enough heat out of the hole to make anything work.

I used to read Power Engineering! Haven't seen it in a long time.

I still find it almost unbelievable that they have combined-cycle plants having thermal efficiencies near 60%. I distinctly remember one of my college professors saying that we would probably never see 50% in our lifetimes.

That's a funny story about the New Mexico geo-thermal plant.

There was a story some years back (here at FR) about a guy who had been hired by the University of California system install revolutionary power-generation equipment in all their campuses state-wide.

He was going to install large-scale PV plants, as well as fuel-cell and micro-turbines driven by biogas.

The story was about how he was being fired because he spent an incredible amount of money, putting the project way over budget, and had delivered only a paltry amount of actual power to any campus.

I've tried a couple of times to find that story and the person's name, but have been unable to do so using Google. It's almost like he's been scrubbed from the internet. Which, knowing how the owners of Google feel about green energy, wouldn't really surprise me.

35 posted on 06/03/2017 10:47:52 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: poinq
Nicaragua already runs 10% of its electricity on geothermal heat.

Much of Northern California north of San Francisco uses electricity generated by geothermal heat. My wife used to have to visit the geothermal vents while employed at PG&E, and said it stunk of sulphur. California politics forced PG&E to divest itself of the geothermal/electric plants to other smaller companies. Geothermal provides over 6 percent of electrical power in the entire state.

36 posted on 06/03/2017 1:01:44 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Hoosier-Daddy

No wonder Gore refuses to debate actual climate scientists who don’t subscribe to the man-made global warming BS. He, the big “authority” that he pretends to be, doesn’t know squat about earth science.


37 posted on 06/03/2017 2:56:40 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal: details at my FR home page)
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To: sphinx
But of course, if you win a Pulitzer for commentary, I want a slice of the cash.

They give The Prize for op-ed commentary? Who knew??!!

38 posted on 06/05/2017 7:14:04 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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