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Project to pour water into volcano to make power
Fuel Fix ^
| January 16, 2012
| Associated Press
Posted on 01/16/2012 7:27:17 AM PST by thackney
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To: cripplecreek
I'm a licensed boiler mechanic. Water by volume is more explosive than gasoline when instantly converted to superheated steam. 1ml of water instantly becomes 1,110ml of steam.
I can't even do the math on 26 million gallons of water converted to steam. What's 26 million gallons times 1,100?
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posted on
01/16/2012 7:52:15 AM PST
by
blackdog
(And justice for all.....(Offer not valid in all locations, and prices vary))
To: thackney
"They hope the water comes back to the surface fast enough and hot enough to create cheap, clean electricity that isnt dependent on sunny skies or stiff breezes without shaking the earth and rattling the nerves of nearby residents." Operative words: THEY HOPE!
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posted on
01/16/2012 7:53:48 AM PST
by
FroggyTheGremlim
(Democrats:always looking for someone else to blame)
To: thackney
If there really is intelligent life somewhere in the universe, I sure hope they aren’t watching us. Dumping 24 million gallons of water into a volcano! No there’s an idea!
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posted on
01/16/2012 7:53:53 AM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
("Climate Change" my a.... All weather is local.)
To: thackney
Inflate a balloon too much and it loudly goes "Pop,"
Build up pressure near Earth's surface and it will "Pop," too, with a shock wave that might circle the Earth several times ... as in the 1883 Krakatoa event.
the following is from Wikipedia:
The pressure wave generated by the colossal final explosion radiated from Krakatoa at 1,086 km/h (675 mph).[3] It was so powerful that it ruptured the eardrums of sailors on ships in the Sunda Strait[4] and caused a spike of more than two and half inches of mercury (ca 85 hPa) in pressure gauges attached to gasometers in the Jakarta gasworks, sending them off the scale.[5] The pressure wave radiated across the globe and was recorded on barographs all over the world, which continued to register it up to 5 days after the explosion. Barograph recordings show that the shockwave from the final explosion reverberated around the globe 7 times in total.[2] Ash was propelled to a height of 80 km (50 mi).<
To: thackney
Send all those leftist hippies in Oregon up to the top to pour a cup of water in.
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posted on
01/16/2012 7:58:23 AM PST
by
The Sons of Liberty
(Psalm 109:8 Let his days be few and let another take his office. - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
To: FlingWingFlyer
I maintain that instead of using Water (aka, di-hydrogen monoxide), 1,000,000 times the energy would be created by insertion into the Volcano the world's supply of windmills and solar panels.
Especially political energy.
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posted on
01/16/2012 7:58:23 AM PST
by
C210N
(Dems: "We must tax you so that we can buy your votes")
To: thackney
they hope will give a boost to a green energy sector that has yet to live up to its promise.It's a little early to call something the understatement of the year, however ...
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posted on
01/16/2012 7:59:28 AM PST
by
Pan_Yan
To: thackney
What happens when they pump water into the volcano and strike oil? Would the 'green energy sector' know what to do with it?
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posted on
01/16/2012 8:00:14 AM PST
by
Maurice Tift
(You can't stop the signal, Mal. You can never stop the signal.)
To: thackney
What happens when they pump water into the volcano and strike oil? Would the 'green energy sector' know what to do with it?
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posted on
01/16/2012 8:00:33 AM PST
by
Maurice Tift
(You can't stop the signal, Mal. You can never stop the signal.)
To: BipolarBob
What could possibly go wrong? The fun here is to figure out what angle the enviro-wackos will use to protest this. Because if it works, we know they will protest it.
Will it be man-made cooling of their Earth's core? Perhaps the interruption of the Earth's volcanic cycle? Plate tectonics? Destruction of the magnetic field?
Put your money down now.
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posted on
01/16/2012 8:01:34 AM PST
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: BipolarBob
I can just see the headlines now...
“Today in Central Oregon, a steam explosion shot a drilling tower into low-Earth orbit. The explosion was seen for several miles and heard in Portland.”
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posted on
01/16/2012 8:07:05 AM PST
by
hoagy62
("Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff."-Frank Zappa)
To: musicman
And how much energy does it take to pump the water into the volcano? What is the ‘gain’?
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posted on
01/16/2012 8:08:25 AM PST
by
DesertSapper
(Not part of the solution? Then you're on the wrong forum.)
To: SampleMan
Will it be man-made cooling of their Earth's core? Perhaps the interruption of the Earth's volcanic cycle? Plate tectonics? Destruction of the magnetic field? Put your money down now. I'll take "What sounds like a really stupid idea for 500 Alex".
To: hoagy62
To: thackney
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posted on
01/16/2012 8:19:14 AM PST
by
Don Carlos
(01/20/2009 - Begin the Obama Interregnum)
To: thackney
I don’t think I have a problem with this.
But I find it hypocritical that an “stimulus” project is called “green” while fracking for oil/gas is not - when both projects are so very similar.
Where is the outrage for the large volume of water that will be required for geothermal?
Where are the people that will be demanding that the heavy metals be removed from the waste stream?
Where are the studies on the additives? Where are the government agencies demanding that the hydroshearing formula be made public?
And by all means, lets give geothermal drilling credit for their thoughtfulness in locating their sites far from population centers, while really sticking it to oil/gas operations in western North Dakota.
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posted on
01/16/2012 8:19:29 AM PST
by
kidd
To: tophat9000
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posted on
01/16/2012 8:20:06 AM PST
by
kaboom
To: thackney
24 million gallons of water eh....
just enough to start 24 high productivity fracking oil wells.
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posted on
01/16/2012 8:30:44 AM PST
by
spokeshave
(Ron Paul finally lit a match after dousing himself with gasoline)
To: kidd
My only problem with it is the government subsidy.
I believe the fears expressed here are greatly overblown.
But I knew the headline was good for a lot of interest and follow up.
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posted on
01/16/2012 8:31:50 AM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: hoagy62
Today in Central Oregon, a steam explosion shot a drilling tower into low-Earth orbit. The explosion was seen for several miles and heard in
Portland Poland.
FTFY
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