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Scientists Identify Massive Geothermal Hotspot In Utah
Consumer Energy Report ^
| 10-3-2012
| CER
Posted on 10/06/2012 10:26:12 AM PDT by blam
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posted on
10/06/2012 10:26:19 AM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
The 12th Imam is a Mormon?
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posted on
10/06/2012 10:31:12 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: blam
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you our next roadless wilderness area.
To: blam
Quick! How long before the Environmentalists/Nimby’s introduce a lawsuit to prevent exploitation of this potential energy source?
...3, 2, 1
To: blam
Everyone knows this will emit dangerous greenhouse gasses, in particular...
...water vapor.
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posted on
10/06/2012 10:36:48 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: blam
Yes, but utilizing this precious resource will serve to deplete the earth’s inner balance, thus contributing to interior cooling... 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...
Incidents of breast cancer will rise. Prostates will solidify. Dogs and cats will attack each other. Divorce rates will increase. Children will go hungry. Republicans and wealthy people will prosper. Lions, tigers, and bears... Oh my!!!!
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posted on
10/06/2012 10:40:18 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Obama got Mitch-Slapped in that first debate.)
To: blam
I hope they work out the turbine corrosion problem
from dissolved mineral buildup
To: blam
Years ago I visited a small town in New Zealand that sits on some sort of geothermal hotspot.The buildings in the town,houses and businesses,get free heat from the pipe system that's been set up.OTOH,the town absolutely *reeks* of rotten eggs!
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posted on
10/06/2012 10:41:36 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Ambassador Stevens Is Dead And The Chevy Volt Is Alive)
To: Vince Ferrer
But the president will have to make the announcement/dedication from Nevada or some other state to try to avoid some of the uproar (a la Grand Escalante Staircase, or whatever it was with Clinton).
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posted on
10/06/2012 10:42:31 AM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
To: blam
While this could be an economic boon to the area and add to our nation’s energy supply, I expect the environmentalists will find some lame excuse to block the development of this resource for years.
To: blam
Unh-oh. This is where the next supervolcano caldera may erupt, rather like the one the blew up in Yellowstone 640,000 years ago, with many lesser ones since then.
Won’t matter if it could be exploited or not. But how do you think that black rock got there in the first place?
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posted on
10/06/2012 10:44:01 AM PDT
by
alloysteel
("You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity".)
To: Vince Ferrer
If I know my south of Delta UT, it is already a good example of roadless desert. As others are postulating, it would surely make a great “wilderness”.
Oh, anyone agree that “wilderness” is idiot speak for locking up useful land, minerals, access, rights, and general use, for the misguided goal of utopian living in prisons called cities?
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posted on
10/06/2012 10:45:18 AM PDT
by
wita
To: HangnJudge
Seems to me they could devise a system where they introduce the water to depth, that could be heated by the steam, thus expanding and driving a turbine above ground. As the steam passed the turbine, it could be channeled into a pool to be used again.
From your comments, it seems you were referencing them utilizing direct steam from the geothermal supply. That would contain far more minerals for corrosion.
I’m certainly no expert here, but this does seem like a way to cut down on mineral deposit problems.
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posted on
10/06/2012 10:49:47 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Obama got Mitch-Slapped in that first debate.)
To: Gay State Conservative
SO2 is not a pleasant fragrance.
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posted on
10/06/2012 11:01:21 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(Libs, dems, unions, leftist scum & murderous muzzies - are like bacteria: attack, attack, attack!)
To: Vince Ferrer
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you our next roadless wilderness area.
^^^This. Given the levels of endemism in the intermountain west, there's probably some endangered gnat that the Greens can use to obstruct progress. As always.
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posted on
10/06/2012 11:04:45 AM PDT
by
verum ago
(Some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
To: blam
They had a geo steam facility near Milford 30 years ago.
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posted on
10/06/2012 11:05:19 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: DoughtyOne
” Our next step is to get (geothermal energy investors) interested in moving forward to develop this resource, “
Govt funding.
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posted on
10/06/2012 11:08:08 AM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
To: blam
Didn’t they try this in Indonesia and ended up w/ a mud geyser that buried a town?
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posted on
10/06/2012 11:44:54 AM PDT
by
Vinnie
(A)
To: HangnJudge
I hope they work out the turbine corrosion problem from dissolved mineral buildup Heat exchangers. You don't circulate the groundwater to and from the turbines. You use the high-temperature groundwater to flash pure water into steam.
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posted on
10/06/2012 12:05:31 PM PDT
by
backwoods-engineer
(My game is disruption. I will use lethal force --my vote-- in self-defense against Obama.)
To: alloysteel
But how do you think that black rock got there in the first place? Magma incursions from the mantle below the crust. That whole area is volcanic. Mt Ranier? Mt St Helens?
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posted on
10/06/2012 12:09:23 PM PDT
by
backwoods-engineer
(My game is disruption. I will use lethal force --my vote-- in self-defense against Obama.)
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