“...Sorry.”
Posted on 12/20/2009 1:12:08 AM PST by myknowledge
Markus Haering, who designed the geothermal project, rejected allegations that he deliberately damaged properties and said local people knew the risks.
The deep drilling underground caused a series of earthquakes in 2006, including one of 3.4 magnitude, rattling residents of the north-western city of Basel. Geopower Basel, the project leader, has already paid around 9 million Swiss francs (£5.3 million) in compensation for cracked walls and other damage on properties near the experiment.
The project was suspended at the time and shut down last week after a risk analysis concluded that more quakes could follow if the drilling continued.
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The deep drilling underground caused a series of earthquakes in 2006, including one of 3.4 magnitudeThanks hennie pennie. Alternative energy -- but alternative to what?
You! Braggin’ agin, are ye?
The whining is about a 3.4??? Speaking from Los Angeles, a 3.4 is barely noticeable. “Was that a truck rumbling by?”
But it does sound foolish, and I’m glad to have foolish science exposed, always. Esp before we have to try it and pay for it.
This is a witch hunt.
To move the earths crust one needs force on the order of magnitude generated by a nyclear explosion.
The Swiss greenies have lost it completely.
The oscillator diagram upthread is a great design for people like Larry Flint, who can know doubt inent a new seual deice from it, and may he suggest that the Swiss Greenies use it on each other.
Witch hunt in modern guise, its laughable. I feel for this geo-physicist.
People are so powerful they can distort the blackbody radiation that eminates from the earth. albert the goracle tells me so. Can they tax it? The shifting that is...
I have been consuming copious quantities of Boston Baked beans as vengeance. I want them to try and tax that.
You dare fart above ground?
Well I am working up to a force 7 on the Richter scale.
Have to test above ground...;-).
The greennies are about to be met by the brownies!
“...Sorry.”
ping
Was about a year ago we were discussing geothermal, I think.
ping
It's not easy being green...
Cheers!
Can you even feel a 3.4 quake? Seems about what a truck driving past causes. Sorta. 8<)
A few thousand feet below. Even in the bottom of the diamond mines in Africa they can’t get to half of the boiling water temperatures.
At a many thousand dollars per hundred feet to drill - and a LOT of mess and impact around the drill site.
Plus lots of messy and deadly H2S gas and vented noxious odors and underground water full of BAD chemicals that go into the groundwater.
Nah. Don’t do it. Not for thermal.
The homes are from the 18th Century and earlier and weren’t built to withstand trucks going by 8*}
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