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Project to pour water into volcano to make power
Physorg.com ^
| 1/14/2012
| Jeff Barnard
Posted on 01/14/2012 7:39:23 PM PST by aimhigh
Geothermal energy developers plan to pump 24 million gallons of water into the side of a dormant volcano in Central Oregon this summer to demonstrate new technology they hope will give a boost to a green energy sector that has yet to live up to its promise.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: energy; greenenergy; pourwaterinvolcano; volcano; waterdumpintovolcano
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Earthquake potential, since the process used is similar to fracking.
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posted on
01/14/2012 7:39:32 PM PST
by
aimhigh
To: aimhigh
YIKES!!
This could be explosive.
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posted on
01/14/2012 7:40:34 PM PST
by
SatinDoll
(NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
To: aimhigh
"a dormant volcano." These wise guys think they are soo smart...wait until Mother Nature decides to slap them upside the head.
To: aimhigh
The small-scale unit is available for home use and can allow anyone live totally "off the grid".
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posted on
01/14/2012 7:42:50 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(Nothing will change until after the war.)
To: aimhigh
"....liquid hot magma."
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posted on
01/14/2012 7:43:15 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: aimhigh
What could possibly go wrong???
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posted on
01/14/2012 7:43:15 PM PST
by
null and void
(Day 1088 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
To: aimhigh
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posted on
01/14/2012 7:44:21 PM PST
by
Repeal The 17th
(We have met the enemy and he is us.)
To: aimhigh
I have a feeling they are in for a big surprise...like noxious gases escaping, but not through the natual outlet. Bet thewy kill everything within 100 miles.
To: aimhigh
Crater Lake must be from the prototype version then.
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posted on
01/14/2012 7:45:29 PM PST
by
combat_boots
(The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
To: aimhigh
Why do I have a very bad feeling about that idea?
........lolol......idiots....
To: hinckley buzzard
The Newberry Caldera has a history of exhaustive eruptions, which is why there is no cone. Every time it erupts, the magma chamber exhausts itself, empties, and the resulting cone collapses into the magma chamber. Its eruptions have been the largest and most spectacular in central Oregon. But it's been several thousand years since the last eruption. It's sleeping -- for now.
It's an interesting experiment they're proposing, and it's probably safe. That area of central Oregon hasn't had an eruption in a very long time.
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posted on
01/14/2012 7:50:50 PM PST
by
Publius
To: aimhigh
As long as the level of injection is quite near the surface there seems to be limited risk.
Injecting below the center of the mass of the magma chamber would be problematic.
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posted on
01/14/2012 7:51:57 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: combat_boots
Crater Lake came from the plinean eruption of Mt. Mazama some 7000 years ago. It's asleep for now.
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posted on
01/14/2012 7:53:01 PM PST
by
Publius
To: aimhigh
It can’t be any more dangerous than, say, slipping an enema to a sleeping, sluggish bulldog. Here, hold my beer ...
To: ClearCase_guy
Hey, I have one of those prototypes somewhere around here, left over from a (now) 20 something year old’s elementary education.
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posted on
01/14/2012 7:54:39 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Publius
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posted on
01/14/2012 7:55:19 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(Nothing will change until after the war.)
To: aimhigh
It's not nice to fool Mother Nature.
I suspect they'll get steam where they don't expect it, with hydrogen sulfide and chlorine in larger amounts than they expect and assorted earthquakes where they don't want 'em.
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posted on
01/14/2012 7:55:35 PM PST
by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it. (plagiarized))
To: null and void
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posted on
01/14/2012 7:55:56 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
To: aimhigh
U-huh. And just how much electric power — generated from coal-fired plants — will it take to pump all that water up the side of the mountain? I can’t believe how stupid Greeniacs are.
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posted on
01/14/2012 7:56:05 PM PST
by
pabianice
(")
To: pabianice
Damn, you beat me to it! Hand pumps?
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posted on
01/14/2012 7:58:40 PM PST
by
RetiredTexasVet
(There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
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