[aimhigh]

Earthquake potential, since the process used is similar to fracking.

[SatinDoll]

YIKES!!

This could be explosive.

[hinckley buzzard]

"a dormant volcano." These wise guys think they are soo smart...wait until Mother Nature decides to slap them upside the head.

[ClearCase_guy]

The small-scale unit is available for home use and can allow anyone live totally "off the grid".

[dfwgator]

"....liquid hot magma."

[null and void]

What could possibly go wrong???

[Repeal The 17th]

[Sacajaweau]

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.

[combat_boots]

Crater Lake must be from the prototype version then.

[Never A Dull Moment]

Why do I have a very bad feeling about that idea?

........lolol......idiots....

[Paladin2]

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.

[tumblindice]

It can’t be any more dangerous than, say, slipping an enema to a sleeping, sluggish bulldog. Here, hold my beer ...

[Navy Patriot]

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.

[pabianice]

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.

[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.]

[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

[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!