[tt] Independent: Greener power to the people: the real energy alternative?

[Randall Webmail]

From: "J. Andrew Rogers" <andrew at ceruleansystems.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2008 0:57
Subject: Re: [tt] Independent: Greener power to the people: the real	energy alternative?
To: Randall Webmail <rvh40 at insightbb.com>
Cc: tt at postbiota.org

>> You dig a hole  
> > a few thousand feet deep, the bottom of that hole is HOT, 
>> by  comparison with surface temps.
> >
> > Like three hundred degrees F.
> >
> > I don't know what it costs to drill four thousand feet these 
> > days,  but it's gotta be less than building a nuke plant.
> 
> 
> Under *ideal* circumstances, like drilling into a shallow semi- 
> crystallized magma chambers like they have in northern Nevada, 
> a  single geothermal bore -- at *500-600F* -- will generate around 
> 10 MW  of cheap, continuous power.  Low-grade bores like the 300F 
> one you mention above will generate around an order of magnitude less 
> power in

So drill five thousand feet.  Or six.  Hell, ten.

Point is - you can do this ANYWHERE, and get FREE heat, for as long as the laws of Physics remain in force.

And there's no problem getting rid of radioactive waste ...