Beam me to Planet Gore !
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.
You can bet if there’s taxpayer money involved,
the shareholders in this company are big contributors to democRats and 0bama.
Actually this is feasible. I do not have a problem with a "research well" to prove or disprove the application. However, if proved feasible, the government needs to stay the hell out of it. If the source can be tapped economically, private enterprise will do it. Otherwise it is just another hole in the ground for Obama to poor money into.
What’s hilarious about this is the fact that they are betting the ranch on water supply.
This scheme can only be perpetrated in areas with a surfeit of water. You can use salt water instead, but eventually you have to capture the steam. Eventually, you have to turn that ratwheel to get the rotor to turn through the stator.
All those impurities in the steam will eat turbines like they were twinkies at a grow house.
But hey, Thorium based nuclear works, and has only one downside - you have to actually build the plants in order to get the power from them. Good thing a really big one would be about the size of a small Costco.