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What could possibly go wrong?
That region of the globe is overdue for a really large earthquake anyway. When it happens, and it will happen, it will be blamed on this sort of technology irrespective of actual, uh, “fault.”
The big difference is that fracking isn’t dumping water onto superheated rock causing the water to flash to steam. (Which creates some serious pressure)
But then the Thetans may escape!
Kaboooo!!!!!.....
This is right up there with the plan to send millions of mirrors into orbit to reflect the sunlight and reduce “global warming.”
Because, man, they're gone.
Operative words: THEY HOPE!
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!
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).<
Send all those leftist hippies in Oregon up to the top to pour a cup of water in.
It's a little early to call something the understatement of the year, however ...
Hold my beer ...
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.
just enough to start 24 high productivity fracking oil wells.
Have one already in my backyard, A HEAT PUMP!!!!! Not as efficient though..
I assume there are no fault lines near this experiment?