Ping!.........
billions of degrees!
Hotter than the surface of the Sun!.....according to top scientist al gore
The Econuts HATE cheap energy!!!! The only thing that they hate worse than cheap energy is abundant energy. It means less government control. Less government control is a fear worse than the fear of Death to environazis.
“Giving society cheap, abundant energy . . . would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.” Paul Ehrlich
Just guessing but the Yellowstone caldera strikes me as a good location.
Our local bird cage liner ran a green weenie article about smoke emissions and showed a picture just like that of a cooling tower and called the water vapor ie steam “smoke”!
I kid you not!
“Geothermal power is abundant, renewable and clean.”
REALLY??? RENEWABLE???
1. Water, like that from which geothermal steam is produced is going to seep back down from the surface to where it interacts with super-hot rocks as fast and as much as the water already there is released in a geothermal energy project? Really? We KNOW that??
2. We can infinitely keep extracting the heat from the rocks from which we derive geothermal energy and the earth will infinitely replace it?? Really??
CLEAN???
The brine from geothermal energy sources is MANY TIMES saltier than sea water; it requires tons of expensive cleaning for the water to be used in steam turbines without causing tons of corrosion to the turbines and the pipes, as well as very high costs in disposing of what’s left of the brine once the water has been extracted, which sometimes has metals within and sometimes other substances toxic in high densities once all the water is removed.
That is not to say that geothermal brine cannot be cleaned, but to say it IS clean to start with is just not the case, and disposal of what is left to make it “clean” is not without high expense either.