Or extracting heat from the mantle will cause the core to solidify, Earth to lose its magnetic field, and the solar wind ionizes and strips all the atmosphere from the planet.
WE'RE DOOMED!!
Posted on 02/22/2015 6:03:13 PM PST by ckilmer
Do you buy this argument?
How long before the Environazis say it causes earthquakes like fracking?
Wind mills are sooooooo much better!
The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.
Although I don’t know if it is that inexpensive, because you are using electricity to pump the solution through the entire piping inside and outside the house, it does help keep the temperature of your home at a steady temperature year round.
Thousands of oil rigs are idle because the price of energy is way down due to increased production. If geothermal wasn’t competitive with 100 dollar a barrel oil, how big are the subsidies going to have to be at 50?
They should be well aware of the earthquake potential. See the USGS records at the Geysers and Clear Lake, CA. Is it a real threat for major destructive earthquakes? No more than is fracking which is low.
How long before the Environazis say it causes earthquakes like fracking?
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never. the big solar array in southwest nevada called Ivanhoe just fries birds at a regular clip just as windmills knock them out of the sky. The enviro’s don’t care. these are approved energy sources. same with geo. they can drill all they want and frack water and make the earth shake rattle and roll and the enviros won’t care. geothermal is an approved energy source.
Wind mills are sooooooo much better!
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for pulling up water or making energy?
Precisely. A good well will flow 100 barrels a day... Times 50... Times 365...
Wish I did have geothermal, poor little old man was found frozen solid on his sofa around here recently and that will never happen in a house with geothermal.
Although I don’t know if it is that inexpensive, because you are using electricity to pump the solution through the entire piping inside and outside the house, it does help keep the temperature of your home at a steady temperature year round.
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what they want to do is drive water to a hotspot so it’ll come up as hot water or steam and then use the heat to drive a turbine to make electricity.
Much of the cost of doing this is in the drilling. If the drillers will suddenly charge half as much as they did for oil drilling — then the economics of this energy source look a lot better.
Besides ... the weather has been more than cold ... stuff freezes and weird things happen in sub zero temperature
Or extracting heat from the mantle will cause the core to solidify, Earth to lose its magnetic field, and the solar wind ionizes and strips all the atmosphere from the planet.
WE'RE DOOMED!!
Thousands of oil rigs are idle because the price of energy is way down due to increased production. If geothermal wasn’t competitive with 100 dollar a barrel oil, how big are the subsidies going to have to be at 50?
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oil and electricity don’t compete directly against each other...at least not now. The point of these hydrothermal wells would be to make electricity. There’s a couple of them already in operation. Mostly in Nevada and California —in just the sweetest spots for hydrothermal == as you can see from the map above.
This could happen, but only if the dough is flowing to Warren Buffet, Elon Musk, Tom Steyer, or similar regime affiliate.
Heck, Fisker got $528 mil from the fedgov to sell 1800 cars.
Old frayed rope pulling on the pipe tongs, open drive chain in the middle of everything, cable drum up close and personal.
Or that it’ll put lava in your living room?
It’s less expensive because it delivers more energy than it uses. Heat pumps have been around since the 1970s but only drawing heat from outside air, so they’re less efficient when it’s colder outside. Putting them underground solves that problem and a lot of homes have had them installed that way over the past decade.
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