"Advocates say the technique could eventually generate vast amounts of energy. But the fracturing would be virtually guaranteed to induce earthquakes"
I've SAID IT BEFORE and I'LL SAY IT AGAIN: the EARTHY-CRUNCHY FART-MIST FANATICS and their LYING AGENDA-PUSHING is HARMFUL!!!!
They ARE NOT some SLEEPY-SOUL DO-GOODERS because THEIR LIES are DANGEROUS!
Now see WHERE they are talking about GENERATING an EARTHQUAKE!
"Drilling complications said to delay geothermal energy project; Effort already under review for earthquake risk" by James Glanz, New York Times | August 21, 2009
NEW YORK - The Obama administration’s first major test of geothermal energy as a significant alternative to fossil fuels has fallen seriously behind schedule, several federal scientists said this week, even as the project is under review because of the earthquakes it could generate in Northern California.
Intended to extract heat from hot bedrock, the project has been delayed because the bit on a giant rig, meant to drill more than 2 miles underground, has struggled to pierce surface rock formations, the scientists said. The bit has snapped off at least once and become repeatedly fouled in a shallow formation called cap rock, and the drillers have twice been forced to pull it out and essentially start over.
WTF is this, "The Core?"
Late last year, the project, undertaken by a start-up company called AltaRock Energy, received $6.25 million in financing from the Energy Department, in hopes that it would be the first of dozens of projects to produce renewable energy by fracturing rock at the bottom of a deep hole and then circulating water through the cracks to generate steam.
Your tax dollars going for this stoo-pid f***ing idea, Americans?
But last month, after an article in The New York Times raised questions on whether AltaRock had been forthcoming about earthquakes generated by a similar project in Basel, Switzerland, the Energy Department and the Bureau of Land Management informed the company that it would not be allowed to fracture rock until the department completed a new review of whether the project would be safe.
The scientists who told of delays in the project spoke only on the condition that they not be identified, in order to preserve their access to company progress reports. The scientists said that after nearly two months of the highly expensive drilling, the rig had reached depths of less than 4,000 feet. The original schedule called for it to reach a final depth of 12,000 feet, or 2.3 miles, after no more than 50 days of drilling, according to company officials.
Advocates say the technique could eventually generate vast amounts of energy. But the fracturing would be virtually guaranteed to induce earthquakes. The Energy Department review, likely to be released in the next few weeks, is expected to determine whether AltaRock’s effort is safe.
They have to turn it down, don't they?
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