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To: Michael.SF.
"you are way out there in your logic. Look at map. Imperial Valley is 250- 300 miles from LA. It is 100 miles to Phoenix."

I've looked at the map. I think you need to spend a bit more time doing so. Geothermal is useful in a very SMALL portion of the area of the United States, and accessible to only a tiny fraction of the population. Thus it won't ever make up a significant fraction of the total energy usage of the country--and in fact is probably not even capable of supplying the total electric needs of the area you mention.

I note you never did answer the question of what is the likely total DEVELOPABLE geothermal potential even of California. I also noted in passing through various online geothermal energy references that they can't even run the full installed capacity of "The Geysers", I assume because they were depleting the available resource.

110 posted on 08/05/2006 6:40:38 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)
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To: Wonder Warthog
I assume because they were depleting the available resource.

You need not assume that. If you had been paying attention to my posts you would have seen that I said that much earlier in this thread.

But I think you only listen to what you want to listen to and tune out much of everything else.

111 posted on 08/05/2006 7:54:58 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other peoples money -- M. Thatcher)
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