Posted on 03/20/2010 3:45:37 PM PDT by decimon
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A combination of hot rocks and water like those that created Yellowstone's geysers have been tapped by the city to keep the sidewalks toasty since the early 1990s. They also heat downtown buildings, kettles at a brewhouse, and greenhouses and keep the lights on at a college campus.
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A 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology report estimates that EGS, with support, could be producing 100 gigawatts of electricity — equivalent to 1,000 coal-fired or nuclear power plants
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I went to the Raser Technologies online site and it is impressive.
There is new knowledge concerning a huge magma chamber underneath Mt. Rainier, then extending all the way under Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Baker.
It would seem to me that there may exist a few prime areas suitable for the binary technology Raser has described.
Firt incidence of AC in the US was air pumped out of Luray cavern, into the house above.
THE STAND AT KLAMATH FALLS
It's been a long while since I remember reading about that at Klamath Falls, here on Free Republic, but I do remember it, now that you mention it... :-)
I was in Oregon at the time (and had been for many years prior). I'm in Oklahoma now.
“I was in Oregon at the time (and had been for many years prior). I’m in Oklahoma now. “
You moved up, good for you!
There is new knowledge concerning a huge magma chamber underneath Mt. Rainier, then extending all the way under Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Baker.
Ya know... a couple of years before Mt. St. Helens went off on May 18, 1980, Mt. Baker was blowing a lot of steam and smoke out -- and some scientists thought (along with some of the public, at the time) that Mt. Baker was going to be the next volcano in the United States (the lower 48) to go off. I kinda thought so, too. Officials had closed off areas of Mt. Baker, thinking that something was going to happen.
But, in the end, it didn't and instead Mt. St. Helens took off and then blew its top. And looking back historically, Mt. St. Helens has a long history and a fairly regular history of blowing its top. It's a whole lot more regular in doing that than any of the Cascade Range volcanoes that we have.
In addition, Mt. Hood has steam coming out of it from a hot spot at the top, and has had that for a very long time, too. So, Mt. Hood is "hot" and it could blow, too.
All these Cascade Range volcanoes could blow at any time. They're all active and very capable of doing that.
Firt incidence of AC in the US was air pumped out of Luray cavern, into the house above.
Well, it's not a proper FReeper tradition to give only 1/10 the story and then leave the thread, doncha know... :-)
In 1901, the cool, supposedly pure air of Luray Caverns was forced through the rooms of the Limair Sanatorium, erected on the summit of Cave Hill by Colonel T.C. Northcott, former president of the Luray Caverns Corporation. The Colonel billed "Limair," as the first air-conditioned home in the United States. On the hottest day in summer, the interior of the house was kept at a cool and comfortable 70 °F (21 °C). By sinking a shaft five feet in diameter down to a cavern chamber and installing a 42-inch (1,100 mm) fan powered by a 5 horsepower (3.7 kW) electric motor, Northcott’s system could change out the air through the entire house about every 4 minutes. Tests made over successive years by means of culture media and sterile plates, were considered to have demonstrated the "perfect bacteriologic purity" of the air, purportedly a benefit to those suffering various respiratory illnesses. This "purity" was explained by a natural filtration process with air drawn into the caverns through myriad rocky crevices, then further cleansing by air floating over the transparent springs and pools, the product finally being supplied to the inmates of the sanatorium. (The "Limair" burned down in the early 1900s but was subsequently rebuilt as a brick building.) The Luray Caverns Corporation, which was chartered by Northcott, purchased the caverns in February 1905 and continues to hold the property today.
The really neat thing about the Binary geothermal system is you don’t really have to be right at or even near a volcano to find a source of very hot sub-surface water.
This huge magma chamber translates into hot rocks lying under the foothills of the Cascade Mountain range to the north and northeast of Vancouver, Washington.
Because of underlying rock structures, there are bound to be large pockets of heated water that can be tapped into for energy.
Well, I had originally come from Oklahoma you see... then went to Texas and then to Oregon and made the “big circle” and came back to Oklahoma... got most of the relatives in Oklahoma... :-)
But, I’ve got to say that I love the Pacific Northwest... as there’s nothing like it in the way of those forests and those Oregon and Washington beaches and the rivers and the trails and the mountains and so on... you can’t beat it... actually.
Oh, and don’t forget the rain forest of the Olympic Peninsula, too... not to say anything about the San Juan Islands, either... (and there’s a lot more in Oregon, too, besides Washington). You can’t get tired of going around Oregon and Washington.
Yeah, and that makes me think about a lot of the good and natural resources resident in the Pacific Northwest. That’s a great part of the country.
Thanks for the additional info. But I still had to Google to fine out where Luray Caverns are located. Shame on me but I’d never heard of them.
Well..., me neither... and that’s how I came up with this... :-)
Mea culpa for the hit and run. ;)
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