Posted on 07/27/2005 11:13:59 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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hasn't anyone read verne? everyone knows that in the middle of the earth there's a huge ocean and in the middle there's an island and that's where the dinosaurs still live.
in related news, the reason that atlantis sunk was because they were experimenting with drilling to the earth's core.
Forget bimetallism. We're going for trimetallism. Think the Fed would ever put their stamp on platinum?
For more on how deep we've dug, Google "Mohole Project"
The rest is addressed pretty well elsewhere here, although the development of the necessary technologies isn't. There are active efforts to solve parts of the technical challenges, but there are limits in the utility of sharing information about them... and as many elements of the technical drivers have "other" applications, you're unlikely to find out much that is useful (or meaningful) without getting a PhD in Physics and an appointment to a government lab.
Still, I expect that "most" of the solution to the technical problems will be made available somewhere around the year 2008 to 2012... in a form that enables functional products to be produced and marketed.
Why not? There already are platinum Maple Leaves from Canada and also Australian coins - Koalas or Kangaroos, I forgot which.
Geeze-Louise! That would mean I could finally have a set of platinum cookware!
No more worry about polluting my precious bodily fluids due to aluminium or iron compounds being leached from cooking acidic foods; nor would I need 'dangerous' Teflon coatings!
An added plus: I KNOW my stove doesn't get hot enough to melt or burn the bottom out of an unattended platinum pan.
Yep, but such cookware will be VERY heavy. Good for family fights, though. Imagine hitting somebody with 10+ pounds platinum frying pan.
Well, many recipes do call for "a heavy pan".
Also, just think how much harder it would be for 'The Little Woman' to hurl a 3 qt sauce pot across the room.LOL
And another advantage is that it would make assaying and certain other 'kitchen chemistry' experiments less messy.
Although it might be cost-prohibitive, I wonder if we could also use this technique as a means of exploring the interiors of other planets and moons in the solar system.
Scientific maverick's theory on Earth's core up for a test
SF Chronicle | Monday, November 29, 2004 | Keay Davidson
Posted on 12/05/2004 11:17:28 AM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1294934/posts
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"...Deep geothermal, or hot rocks, exploits granite deep in the earth's crust that is heated naturally over millions of years by radiogenic decay from the elements within it. Geodynamics has proven that it can pump water down a 4km well to 300C rocks that heat it and then recover the resultant steam from a second well nearby. By the end of the year, it plans to have a pilot electricity plant in place. It will then look to provide base-load power to the grid by 2012, with a 50 megawatt plant. Its output should eventually reach 10,000 megawatts - the equivalent of 10 to 15 coal-fired power stations..."
J. Marvin Herndon site:freerepublic.com
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