Project to pour water into volcano to make power

Physorg.com ^ | 1/14/2012 | Jeff Barnard

[combat_boots]

I saw Crater Lake. It’s cold. It’s also in Oregon, if I recall correctly, but Mt. Shasta’s not far, comparatively speaking.

I also heard St. Helens erupt and drove right over I-5 after it had just been re-opened. Complete with huge Cypress trees washing down the Toutle like toothpicks.

And the same people who think drilling for oil and/or coal mining is a bad idea believe this plan is brilliant?

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[Publius]

They weren’t cypresses. They were Douglas firs. Tall, brittle and dangerous in a mudflow.

[wally_bert]

That will never enter into their plans or equations. Somehow the water will just get there. I was beaten to the handpump concept. Maybe that would be a WPA project 2.0 that the wun would put the unemployed on.

[Jonty30]

Would you prefer your new sea-side resort to be Publiusville or San Publius?

[null and void]

There are two lakes in the caldera.

I bet we could find an endangered snail or three between them...

[C210N]

Why pour perfectly good water into a volcano to make power?

I have a better idea! To make plenty of power for millions for hundreds of years, we can pour the world’s solar panels and windmill parts into the volcano.

[It’s kind of like sending that stuff to where the sun don’t shine.]

[LibWhacker]

Yup, like a giant Chinese-made (i.e., defective) pressure cooker. I mean, gee, wouldn’t you want to know how all the pipes are connected before you dump a mountain’s lake worth of ice water into the magma chamber? And do they?

[wally_bert]

Hand pumps are too technological and labor saving for the green fascists. Moochelle thinks we're too fat so this would fit both requirements of no technology/labor saving and weight loss.

[Publius]

In proper Spanish, it would be San Publio.

[TheZMan]

That would be hilarious

[combat_boots]

OK.

The state patrolman wiped out on foot right there on I-5, mud and all. It was really something.

[okie01]

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.

What could go wrong???

Age-old Axiom #9

Let sleeping volcanos lie.

[DTogo]

The U.S. Department of Energy has given the project $21.5 million in stimulus funds.

The kiss of death, more tax-payer money literally down a hole.

[Political Junkie Too]

LOL!

We can't drill, dig for coal, run a nuclear plant, build dams for hydro power, because it's not safe for the environment. But we can drop water into an uncontrollable volcano because someone calls it green?

-PJ

[Dogbert41]

"What could possibly go wrong???"

I've been seeing that alot lately around here! LOL

[Jonty30]

Perhaps.

But when you’re Kim Jong Publius, you’ll be able to call it what you want.

[Loyal Sedition]

It would be MUCH simpler to just lift the restrictions preventing development of so many more natural geothermal sites.

The Black Rock Desert comes to mind for one.
Dingy Harry stuck us with that “Wilderness” and “NCA” as an amendment to a spending bill several years ago.

@&%!*# Dingy Harry!

The way they slipped in the allegation that Fracking causes earthquakes is too cute by half.

[Chode]

and how much energy is used to pump the water into it???

[tumblindice]

But, but actor Danny Glover says that global warming causes earthquakes, and he played the US president in a movie where everything that possibly could go wrong, did. (2012)
So if this volcano goes Krakatoa, then the temperature rises and, I see ...
it’s a profit thing!