Comments on: Thermal Drilling Causes Earthquakes

By: joeblough

joeblough — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:31:00 +0000

Sometimes it seems to me that anything you can imagine, somebody will believe and/or try to do.

It’s almost as if the human mind were a random idea generator and the only thing that keeps us alive is our ability to review the idiocies we ourselves produce in the privacy of our minds, and reject them.

So help me, I’ve seen at least three late night TV movies on the events in that article above.

It seems that some folks’ internal garbage collectors are jammed.

By: GetBackJack

GetBackJack — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:09:37 +0000

Out here on the border of Utah and Colorado there’s a curious and wonderfully remote place called Paradox Valley, and a wide spot on CO Hwy 90 that runs the length of it improbably named Bedrock.

And earthquake swarms. From waste water deep injection programs. Run by the federal government. Injecting directly into fault lines. Let me repeat that … directly into fault lines.

In the key concentration of uranium mining in the United States.

http://www.rmag.org/rmag_uploads/outcrops/0302.pdf

Reminds me of the time oil companies talked the federal government into firing off a NUCLEAR WEAPON out here just outside Rifle, CO at Rio Blanco in order to crack deep formations of natural gas.

A nuclear weapon detonation.

By the federal government.

For energy.

Sweet Babbling Buddha ….

By: texaspsue

texaspsue — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:39:31 +0000

Just watch, in the future the Dems. will change their mind. Wait until the environmentalists realize how toxic all of those disposed batteries are going to be. (Not to mention how dangerous the little smart cars are when you have a wreck in one.)

Most Liberals don’t have the first clue about alternative energy and how inefficient it is. If they did they wouldn’t be trying to substitute perfectly fine, natural (yes I said natural) energy sources: oil, gas, coal, etc. Which in the grand scheme of things is less dangerous and more cost effective.

Okay Texas, it’s time to secede. ;-)

By: Petronius

Petronius — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:30:55 +0000

SG: “And yet these alternatives are still treated as if they are viable.”

Calpine Corp. is mentioned near the end of this article as one of the recipients of the additional $200M in federal geothermal seed money (that’s $200M in addition to the $36M doled out to AltaRock). Like AltaRock, Calpine had roots in Switzerland, and it was a pioneer in California geothermal. Unfortunately the geothermal business didn’t pan out for Calpine, and the company went bankrupt a few years ago, wiping out its shareholders and bondholders. Calpine reorganized in 2008 and is now back for another attempt, this time with taxpayer money in addition to investment capital.

Hope springs eternal.

By: untrainable

untrainable — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:57:29 +0000

At last! Hope of left wing San Francisco finally dropping off into the ocean.
Talk about a “Man Made Catastrophe”!

Didn’t Lex Luthor try something like this in a Superman movie? Buy Real Estate in Nevada. Pretty soon geothermal drilling will get you some prime oceanfront property.

If San Francisco is under water, do they still get representation in congress??