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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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posted on
01/16/2012 7:27:30 AM PST
by
thackney
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posted on
01/16/2012 7:28:33 AM PST
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: thackney
What could possibly go wrong?
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posted on
01/16/2012 7:28:33 AM PST
by
BipolarBob
(I don't mind you shooting at me, Frank, but take it easy on the Bacardi!)
To: thackney
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.”
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posted on
01/16/2012 7:30:37 AM PST
by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks thackney.
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.
As you may have guessed, it's another one of Zero's harebrained 'green' wastes of taxpayer green. The company should rename itself Volyndra.
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posted on
01/16/2012 7:31:09 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(FReep this FReepathon!)
To: BipolarBob
That was my first thought. Man oh man.
To: thackney
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)
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posted on
01/16/2012 7:34:21 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
To: BipolarBob
What could possibly go wrong?Well, first off, the government will 'get involved' which will shut down the process if it turns out successful.
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posted on
01/16/2012 7:34:27 AM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
To: thackney
But then the Thetans may escape!
To: BipolarBob
What could possibly go wrong? It did wonders for the people of Pompeii.
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posted on
01/16/2012 7:35:00 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: thackney
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posted on
01/16/2012 7:35:22 AM PST
by
tophat9000
(American is Barack Oaken)
To: BipolarBob
Indeed. I’m just a poor engineer, but drilling into the side of a volcano strikes me as a really, really bad idea.
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posted on
01/16/2012 7:35:37 AM PST
by
wbill
To: musicman
The problem is that if you just pump the water into the ground and let direct action heat it it also picks up a lot of minerals and salts from the volcanic rock around it. It would be like sand blasting the inside of your turbine. Saying that turbines don't like hard water is something of an understatement. So you have to use a heat exchanger to transfer heat from the hard water coming out of the ground to “clean” water used for the turbine. But now you have another point of heat loss to the water coming out of the ground needs to be very hot or you end up with saturated steam in your turbine loop.
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posted on
01/16/2012 7:37:38 AM PST
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: BipolarBob
“What could possibly go wrong?”
I could see where the project workers could get really steamed over this.
To: thackney
This is right up there with the plan to send millions of mirrors into orbit to reflect the sunlight and reduce “global warming.”
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posted on
01/16/2012 7:38:34 AM PST
by
FroggyTheGremlim
(Democrats:always looking for someone else to blame)
To: SunkenCiv
You can bet if there’s taxpayer money involved,
the shareholders in this company are big contributors to democRats and 0bama.
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posted on
01/16/2012 7:40:29 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: BipolarBob
Isn’t this water that belongs to some endangered minnow?
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posted on
01/16/2012 7:41:41 AM PST
by
depressed in 06
( Where is the 1984 Apple Super Bowl ad when we need it?)
To: thackney
Just remember, if you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go.
Because, man, they're gone.
To: MrB
The U.S. Department of Energy has given the project $21.5 million in stimulus funds. That has been matched by private investors, among them Google with $6.3 million.
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posted on
01/16/2012 7:43:27 AM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: BipolarBob
“Would Ms.Saint Helen please pick up the courtesy phone”
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posted on
01/16/2012 7:47:48 AM PST
by
blackdog
(And justice for all.....(Offer not valid in all locations, and prices vary))
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