[spanalot]

OMG - this will cool off the earth.

[Uncledave]

Renewable Energy Ping

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[cripplecreek]

My neighbor has done some experimenting with geothermal heating and cooling but not of this kind.

He buried PVC pipe below the frost line all over his yard and pushes air through it. The ground stays at between 53 anf 55 degrees year round so you can see the advantage. He’s looking at doing the same but pushing water through the lines at his other house.

[#1CTYankee]

Global mantle cooling, ahhhhh!

[Orange1998]

It's in a race with a firm in Australia to be the first to generate power commercially by boiling water on the rocks 3 miles underground.

This sounds very risky. If the center cools then what.

[Young Werther]

The envirowackos will insist that this solution will have a major impact on earth worms. The Antz and anteaters will also be impacted and will see the decline in the BC comic strip. Better to return to the caves and eschew our SUVs, AC unites and refrigerators!

Worms of the World Unite!

Yup, that will fit on a T-Shirt!

[Rudder]

When tremors started cracking walls and bathroom tiles in this Swiss city on the Rhine, engineers knew they had a problem.

Graduates of the Minnesota school of bridge-builders and inspectors.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

” It said an investment of $800 million to $1 billion could produce more than 100 gigawatts of electricity by 2050...”

I assume the author meant to say “gigawatt hours of electricity”. Anyone purporting to report on technical matters should try to get the concepts and terminology down.

[aimhigh]

This won’t work until they figure out how to drill two holes that meet, so they can pump water down one hole, and have steam come out the other. Failure means more underground explosions and earthquakes.

[Stegall Tx]

Of course, nobody has yet mentioned that the #1 (by volume) greenhouse gas is ... WATER VAPOR!

[Moonman62]

A study released this year by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said that if 40 percent of the heat under the United States could be tapped, it would meet demand 56,000 times over. It said an investment of $800 million to $1 billion could produce more than 100 gigawatts of electricity by 2050...

So for the cost of the Iraq war (just saying) we could have had this technology many times over and told all of OPEC to go pound sand.

[SunkenCiv]

So, other than the earthquakes... ;’)

Thanks ND.

[neverdem]

East River Fights Bid to Harness Its Currents for Electricity

Firms dock pay of obese, smokers

Anthrax-Hatfill - Judge's order on disclosure of sources - full text

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[Robert A Cook PE]

Hmmmmmmmmn.

Yes, drilling could solve (local) energy problems two ways.

One: Some extra energy may be released by heating water underground (in a few places where volcanic rocks are near the surface and clean, excess surface water is available to pump underground).

And by reducing the need for energy topside by knocking down the buildings and factories and homes topside. 8<)