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Project to pour water into volcano to make power
And the same people who think drilling for oil and/or coal mining is a bad idea believe this plan is brilliant?
Nully said, "What could possibly go wrong???"
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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.
(Excerpt) Read more at physorg.com ...
There’s earthquakes all over the place where there never used to be earthquakes, allegedly from water pumped underground for “fracking” shale to extract gas, and these guys want to frack a volcano?
You obviously don’t understand how the system works.
Tell ‘em to frack off!;)
. . . . This may be off topic.
Project to pour water into volcano to make power
And the same people who think drilling for oil and/or coal mining is a bad idea believe this plan is brilliant?
Nully said, "What could possibly go wrong???"
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Nobody who is loudly fretting about possible earthquakes from fracking is fretting about the unintended consequences of this proposal. Why?
(For my part, I wish the project all success. I think it very unlikely there will be any unintended consequences, except if there is an undue amount of hazardous minerals in the returned steam.)
$21.5 million in taxpayer money and they do NOT have plans to generate ANY power from this project! as per the article.
They should have named the company Volyndra.
Still howling with laughter, he choked out, "You should have seen that monkey trying to put the cork back in!"
I didn't say find them now. Wait until they've invested billions in permitting, site prep, infrastructure and baksheesh first.
Then find the snails.
About the only 'production' I really expect from this is from the tapayers' pockets.
Sigh... "Never give a sucker an even break..."
Dominic Green must be real.
Art, imitating life.
“Another Way to Die”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhhSU6a4Qu8
Since this is a green project all the way, obviously they are going to use free perpetual motion windmills to do the pumping.
Du-uuh.......
One seminal difference: In fracking, the pressures involved are generated at the surface using pumps, and can be controlled, at least to the extent that pressure generation can be regulated or even stopped by shutting down the pumps.
Not so in this instance, where the pressure will ideally be generated at depth, by natural forces. In short, there will be only a limited amount of control that can be exerted over pressure generation.
This could go well, or it could be a disaster, or it might just prove to be another Solyndra-type sump for our money (watch for gubmint loan guarantees, grants, etc. to stack up...somewhere).
Is the company`s owner named Joe?
Where are we going to find a virgin???
Would be great headlines, half of planet destroyed by "green" energy experiment.
NO pumping involved.
They just dig a ditch from the site down to either Paulina Lake or East Lake, then line it with pickles.
The water will run up right to where it's needed...the more pickles, the more water.
SHEESH! I thought EVERYBODY knew that dill waters run steep!
OH. MY. GOD.
[People have been shot for less]
The ahj doesn’t want to find em. They are on the side of the planners. Therefore they never will exist.
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