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i'm really excited about the medium-term promise of abundant geothermal energy

• ChuckMcM 14y ago
  As am I although there is pretty damning evidence in Sonoma County [1] California that you can cause earthquakes with it. That said, I'm surprised we've not seen more closed loop systems [2][3]. My favorite is to take a loop of tungsten tubing a reservoir, a cooling tower, and a turbo pump and toss the tubing into the magma flow of a volcano. Pull out enough heat to run a turbine but not much that you freeze the lava. I'm totally going for this concept in my Mad Scientist Power Base. [1] http://www.geysers.com/ http://www.geysers.com/ [2] http://www1.eere.energy.gov/geothermal/powerplants.html http://www1.eere.energy.gov/geothermal/powerplants.html [3] http://www.atlanticgeothermal.com/about/what-we-do.html http://www.atlanticgeothermal.com/about/what-we-do.html