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2012-01-23 Science & Technology

Geothermal test will pour water into volcano to make power

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Posted by Mike Ramsey 2012-01-23 17:08|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 I imagine they are laying a metal pipe down there to channel the water down and steam back out. Using the volcano in the same way you use the reactor core in a nuclear plant.

Posted by rjschwarz 2012-01-23 20:08|| 2012-01-23 20:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Water on a volcano is foolhardy. Good thing it never rains in Oregon.

Posted by AuburnTom 2012-01-23 20:15|| 2012-01-23 20:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Fundamentally no different than most any geothermal power plant. The general concept is to find an area of anomalously hot rock (recent volcanic flow, for instance) and circulate water through it to collect some of the heat and bring it to a power plant to extract the energy. Some plants in northern California, Indonesia, Iceland, and Philippines all come to mind. The amount of manmade interference in the natural process is MINISCULE.

Posted by Glenmore 2012-01-23 20:35|| 2012-01-23 20:35|| Front Page Top

#4 I know very little about geothermal technology. But I did notice that one of final stages will be to frack the geothermal zone.

I expect that the volume of outrage against fracking a volcano will be expoential to the amount of money Obama's cronies have invested in geothermal energy.

Posted by junkiron 2012-01-23 23:10|| 2012-01-23 23:10|| Front Page Top

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