Posted on 01/14/2012 7:39:23 PM PST by aimhigh
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at physorg.com ...
Aren’t these the same moronic environuts who wanted to put iron dust into the ocean years back? Hey, fools, aren’t you being anti-ecology putting crap into Ghia where it doesn’t belong??? I’m sure they are well-intended so I guess I should shut up.
Maybe in some sick twisted way this is part of the Gay agenda.
A Darwin company?
Just so long as they don’t dunk a semi-frozen turkey in it, they should be OK.....
-——a process known as hydroshearing. -——
It’s ok to frack if you call it hydroshearing and call the stuff polymers instead of chemicals.
Fracking greenies are failing at the task here. The mission is failing to provide any thing but salaries for the owners.
The question should be: who gets hosed?
It can’t be any more dangerous than, say, slipping an enema to a sleeping, sluggish bulldog. Here, hold my beer ...
Try poking butter up a wildcat’s ass with a red hot poker!
I’m sure the result would even be worse. LoL!
Playing around with volcanos...what could possibly go wrong?
Gay...Ghia...what’s the diff?
Sounds the same when “”Those People”” say it.
Not to worry...Nothing could go wrong.
Would they worry if one morning all the water in Crater Lake was gone?
correct me if I’m wrong but a controlled effort with managed pressurization could work
one would have to inject massive amounts of water deep into the crust to cause a true quake into an area already rather unstable
a steady diffuse stream of water on or near the surface would steam and not infiltrate at all...or at least it seems
but how to collect steam without capping part of it...or maybe a number of contained caps like well pointing in wet areas for pipe laying to dry out the dirt?
what sort of metal can withstand volcano temp numbers to withstand it for sustained use?
Note to myself
should have read it
they want to inject into a sleeping caldera
I was under the impression they wanted to use a steady hot one
Ahhh, the hypocrisy of the liberal ?mind?
Wouldn’t it be easier to just put a Sterling engine on top of it?
How I remember those days! Now, the landscape has healed, but it isn't quite the same.
A couple of things I found interesting about the article. Early on, it cites disposal of fracking fluid as a "likely" cause of recent AR and OH earthquakes. Not sure I'm ready to believe that. Second, I take a cynical approach to assess the likelihood of economic viability of this as a power source. Who are the investors? Well, they are you and me, by force (stimulus money, no less). Oh, and a minor contribution from Google.
Google?
Meanwhile, there is a glut of natural gas. Plenty of spots hereabouts you can see it just vented to the surface and burned.
IF there were a demand for more energy sources than presently exist, natural gas would not be so cheap and private enterprise would be footing the bill for research of possible new sources.
Aye. Paulina and East Lake, if I recall. IF this project had commercial scale potential, those lakes are small and the greenies would NOT like the required amount of water being pumped out of them. Not to mention the fishermen, and high lakes fishing IS the economy in that quarter.
Anyhow, that is all volcanic and you can bet there are unknown rivers, caverns, etc. underground.
We could use 500 of these.. just use SALT WATER. Build a combo desal-power plant. Save the FRESH WATER.
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