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Geothermal Project in California (backed by Obama DoE) Is Shut Down
New York Times ^
| December 11, 2009
| James Glanz
Posted on 12/12/2009 1:11:29 PM PST by reaganaut1
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Maybe we shouldn't cripple the domestic energy sources that *do* work.
To: reaganaut1
extract vast amounts of renewable energy from deep, hot bedrock You mean the center of the earth is not millions of degrees hot? Al Gore is deeply saddened!
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posted on
12/12/2009 1:16:47 PM PST
by
LibFreeOrDie
(Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
To: reaganaut1
What weve discovered is that its harder to make those improvements than some people believed, he added.Apply this result to all the other blue sky technologies.
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posted on
12/12/2009 1:19:37 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(:: The government will do for health care what it did for real estate. ::)
To: reaganaut1
Maybe we shouldn't cripple the domestic energy sources that *do* work. But then we would be killing the Earth with CO2 fumes.
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posted on
12/12/2009 1:20:35 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(:: The government will do for health care what it did for real estate. ::)
To: reaganaut1
To: reaganaut1
The projects apparent collapse comes a day after Swiss government officials permanently shut down a similar project in Basel, because of the damaging earthquakes it produced in 2006 and 2007. It's known that this process produces eathquakes and Obama's administration okayed the project anyway?
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posted on
12/12/2009 1:25:02 PM PST
by
skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: reaganaut1
Rather than the taxpayers paying for these boondoggles why not let oil drill for our own? Oh yeah, might save the Auto Industry.
Pray for America’s Freedom
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posted on
12/12/2009 1:25:32 PM PST
by
bray
(Palin can see the White House from her Porch)
To: reaganaut1
Man oh man, between geothermal getting shut down, ethanol plants shutting down and windpower projects being canceled alternative power appears to be going down the ole terlet.
Geez, will someone start drilling?
To: skr
This is what happens when liberal children think science fiction is real.
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posted on
12/12/2009 1:28:26 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
To: texmexis best
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posted on
12/12/2009 1:30:16 PM PST
by
WVKayaker
(www.wherezobama.org / Obama's Excellent Adventure ...)
To: reaganaut1
The earthquake thing.
No company is going to expose itself to that kind of liability, whether or not any cheap energy is forthcoming.
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posted on
12/12/2009 1:33:05 PM PST
by
sinanju
To: texmexis best
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posted on
12/12/2009 1:33:59 PM PST
by
TheBattman
(They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature...)
To: reaganaut1
For therecord......
Geothermal Energy in California
photo of Geysers Geothermal Plants
Because of its location on the Pacific’s “ring of fire” and because of tectonic plate conjunctions, California contains the largest amount of geothermal generating capacity in the United States.
In 2007, geothermal energy in our state produced 13,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity. Combined with another 440 GWh of imported geothermal electricity, then geothermal energy produced 4.5 percent of the state’s total system power. A total of 43 operating geothermal power plants with an installed capacity of nearly 1,800 megawatts are in California, about two-thirds of the total United States’ geothermal generation.
The largest concentration of geothermal plants is located north of San Francisco in the Geysers Geothermal Resource Area in Napa and Sonoma Counties. This location has been producing electricity since the 1960s. It uses dry steam; one of only two places in the world for this resource (the other being in Larderello, Italy).
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posted on
12/12/2009 1:39:50 PM PST
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Lukenbach Texas is barely there)
To: bert
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posted on
12/12/2009 1:40:59 PM PST
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Lukenbach Texas is barely there)
To: bert
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posted on
12/12/2009 1:41:19 PM PST
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Lukenbach Texas is barely there)
To: reaganaut1
There’s no such thing as a free lunch... or free energy.
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posted on
12/12/2009 1:42:08 PM PST
by
DesScorp
To: reaganaut1
*** the two setbacks could change the direction of the Obama administrations geothermal program, which had raised hopes that the earths bedrock could be quickly tapped as a clean and almost limitless energy source. ***
Back during the Jimmy Carter admin there was plans to build a geothermal power plant in New Mexico. Test hole were drilled, estimates of the ammount of steam were made, a turbine/generator was purchased, all was GO!
When done there was not enough steam to roll the turbine! A couple of years later I saw all the equipment for sale in Power Engineering Magazine.
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posted on
12/12/2009 1:42:09 PM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Are my guns loaded? Break in and find out.)
To: reaganaut1
Hmmm, suppose any of that equipment could be put to use drilling for oil? In the US?
Just sayin’
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posted on
12/12/2009 1:45:40 PM PST
by
PubliusMM
(RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Change we can look forward to.)
To: reaganaut1
200 years of progress on the energy front, and in the last 30 a bunch of environuts think they have a better idea on how to do it.
Don't get me wrong, that's a great idea/dream...but go out into your own garage, use your own money...perfect it, and then put it out on the open market. But we - as taxpayers - are tired of funding your grade-school science projects.
Hillary let the cat out of the bag about energy - it's not about the environment - it's out of lib-envy for how much money the oil companies are supposedly making...AND THE LIBS CAN'T GET THEIR HANDS ON IT. Follow the money.
The left could give a hoot about the environment, or at least that's the impression they give because everything they come up with to "help" the environment involves either:
A) A government grant;
B) A Tax;
C) Regulation
They have a dog in the environment hunt, but it is the money connected with it...proof: climate changes.
I've thought and thought, but can't come up with too many things the EPA has done to really help the environment. They've been around forever, and they still whine about the "dirty air"...well why don't they have it all cleaned up by now?
America has done more to clean up the environment than anyone, yet the world still expects us to carry the load.
When it comes to energy, the left doesn't have a better mousetrap, they just have the power to force us to buy their mousetraps...the ones that won't catch mice.
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posted on
12/12/2009 1:49:58 PM PST
by
FrankR
(SENATE: You cram it down our throats in '09, We'll shove it up your ass in '10...count on it.)
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