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To: kiriath_jearim

Wow! Guess the Arabs better think about developing their economies........


3 posted on 01/22/2007 3:46:02 PM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: yldstrk

They tried this (pumping waste water down a few miles and getting it hot) in a Scandenavian country and got earth quakes recently.


5 posted on 01/22/2007 3:47:51 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Lezahal)
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To: yldstrk
Wow! Guess the Arabs better think about developing their economies........

Exactly how much oil do you think is being burned to spin a turbine?

I've been in most of the base line power plants in the upper midwest and have yet to see anything rated above 50MW burning anything but coal or uranium. Other than natural gas, the only petroleum products I've ever seen burned is kerosene (J4) in GE jet turbine backups. The gas burners' output watts hardly rank as "base line". Its why they're called "peakers".

28 posted on 01/22/2007 4:07:10 PM PST by woofer (It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.)
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