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Drilling Hits an Active Magma Chamber In Hawaii [good news for science]
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| 12/17/2008
| timothy
Posted on 12/17/2008 8:36:40 PM PST by Clint Williams
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To: Clint Williams
Wow, learn something new every day. Who knew there were people out their who get excited about watching rocks solidify.
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posted on
12/17/2008 8:41:17 PM PST
by
MovementConservative
(Not a Bush Republican, a Limbaugh/Levin conservative.)
To: Clint Williams; SouthTexas; glock rocks
This is not the news the Clampetts wanted to hear...
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posted on
12/17/2008 8:41:35 PM PST
by
tubebender
(Retirement...The art and science of Killing time before it Kills you...)
To: Clint Williams
In the sci-fi movies, isn’t this supposed to result in disaster?
Or does that only happen when you drop in the A-bomb?
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posted on
12/17/2008 8:43:50 PM PST
by
sinanju
To: Clint Williams
Why is lava drying interesting or important? I thought they’d be excited about taping into an unlimited source of heat to create clean electric energy. Shows how much I know about science...
To: Clint Williams
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posted on
12/17/2008 8:44:39 PM PST
by
sinanju
To: tubebender
Hope they had a good blow-out preventor!
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posted on
12/17/2008 8:44:56 PM PST
by
SouthTexas
(Remember, it took a Jimmy Carter to bring us a Ronald Reagan!)
To: Clint Williams
The breakthrough was made in 2005. Only now are researchers confident enough about their work to discuss the details publicly.Yes, I'm sure. Read the rest of the article for more knee slappers.....
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posted on
12/17/2008 8:50:50 PM PST
by
ScreamingFist
(Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
To: Clint Williams
Imagine: a magma specialist. Is that a narrow field, or what?
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posted on
12/17/2008 8:51:21 PM PST
by
Rocky
To: Clint Williams
Alternate title: How to create a volcano in five easy steps.
-PJ
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posted on
12/17/2008 8:52:28 PM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(You can never overestimate the Democrats' ability to overplay their hand.)
To: uncommonsense; xcamel; sionnsar; steelyourfaith; theDentist; neverdem; cogitator
Lava is not particularly “clean” nor non-poluting.
Released gasses are notorious (sulfur, NOx in particular are worst, but many thousand variants are deadly, smelly, and corrode the pipes, if they they don't collapse or crud up the pipes while corroding them)
Very, very nasty stuff. Here, instead of just “hot rock” - there is actual lava - which is a better heat source! - but the water needed to get pumped down, then back up and cleaned, then re-pressurized and pumped back down make geothermal power very high risk, low return.
Except noxious odors. Those are about guaranteed.
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posted on
12/17/2008 8:53:41 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Rocky
Imagine: a magma specialist. Is that a narrow field, or what? It's one of the hottest jobs around [/rimshot]
To: Rocky; Clint Williams
Imagine: a magma specialist. Is that a narrow field, or what? I understand the interest in lava is spreading around country. Well, at least around HI.
It's a hot topic right now.
And, when you get right down to it, lava is, underneath it all, the foundation of geology.
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posted on
12/17/2008 8:58:43 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: ClearCase_guy
It's one of the hottest jobs around [/rimshot] "Magma Specialist" = Rock Star
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posted on
12/17/2008 8:59:54 PM PST
by
ZOOKER
( Exploring the fine line between cynicism and outright depression)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Your sense of humor just bubbles to the top in everything you write.
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posted on
12/17/2008 9:00:49 PM PST
by
Rocky
To: Clint Williams
Sounds like a Benny Hill episode.
Were there scantily clad Hawaiian maidens chasing the engineers around a bush?
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posted on
12/17/2008 9:00:51 PM PST
by
Palladin
(When will Bill Ayers start bombing buildings again?)
To: Clint Williams
To: Clint Williams
this is the first time a magma has been found in its natural habitat
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posted on
12/17/2008 9:03:02 PM PST
by
EternalVigilance
(We know that Barack Obama was born. What we don't know is where.)
To: uncommonsense
Why is lava drying interesting or important? It doesn't "dry," it "cools." As the article notes:
...it will allow scientists to observe directly how granites are made. ... It is hoped the site can now become a laboratory, with a series of cores drilled around the chamber to better characterise the crystallisation changes occurring in the rock as it loses temperature."
Direct observation has been key to much advancement in science (Latin for "knowledge"). In this case they can repeatedly observe what's never been seen before and at best could only be only inferred.
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posted on
12/17/2008 9:03:03 PM PST
by
sionnsar
(Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
To: ClearCase_guy; Robert A. Cook, PE
It's one of the hottest jobs around [/rimshot] Doesn't, er, hold a candle to nuclear engineering... *\;-)
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posted on
12/17/2008 9:04:58 PM PST
by
sionnsar
(Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
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