SMU & Google find abundance of geothermal energy in US
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SMU & Google find abundance of geothermal energy in US
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Re: SMU & Google find abundance of geothermal energy in US
#2oh, there's an editorial in nature (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7275/full/462848a...) about how this could cause earthquakes?
awesome. well, nothing worth doing is risk-free, right?
also I love how when google funds something now, they also do it. it seems that all of the investigators were SMU people but because google.org paid for it, now it was discovered by google as well. ;)
Re: SMU & Google find abundance of geothermal energy in US
#3oh, there's an editorial in nature ( http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7275/full/462848a... ) about how this could cause earthquakes? awesome. well, nothing worth doing is risk-free, right? also I love how when google funds something now, they also do it. it seems that all of the investigators were SMU people but because google.org paid for it, now it was discovered by google as well. ;)
Hey what's a few earthquakes when feeding our insatiable desire for more energy is involved? I for one think what happens to the earth is much less important than making sure "consumers" can consume more perishable products, faster.
Re: SMU & Google find abundance of geothermal energy in US
#4I wonder if something like this could be used to desalinate sea water.
Re: SMU & Google find abundance of geothermal energy in US
#5oh, there's an editorial in nature ( http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7275/full/462848a... ) about how this could cause earthquakes? awesome. well, nothing worth doing is risk-free, right? also I love how when google funds something now, they also do it. it seems that all of the investigators were SMU people but because google.org paid for it, now it was discovered by google as well. ;)
'Fraking' has caused earth quakes in the uk, where they are trying to extract the gas down there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing
But that is a slightly different thing to geothermal drilling. You're basically drilling 4km down, and putting a big pipe in. Then you run water through it, which heats the water.
There have been no earth quakes caused in Australian drilling for geo thermal plants to my knowledge.
However, it depends on the technology used. Some of these people are just dumping massive amounts of toxic chemicals and blasting the crap out of the rocks. Obviously this affects the water down there - and is super evil. If you're careful, and with planning I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to do safely and in a non toxic way.
Re: SMU & Google find abundance of geothermal energy in US
#6oh, there's an editorial in nature ( http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7275/full/462848a... ) about how this could cause earthquakes? awesome. well, nothing worth doing is risk-free, right? also I love how when google funds something now, they also do it. it seems that all of the investigators were SMU people but because google.org paid for it, now it was discovered by google as well. ;)
For reference: drilling for oil or natural gas also causes earthquakes. For example, many (even most, I think. http://www.knmi.nl/seismologie/aardbevingen-nederland.html has a map of the last 30; most are up north beneath the Slochteren field) earthquakes in the Netherlands are caused by the sinking of the earth's surface due to removal of natural gas.
It also is important to notice that earthquakes need not be disastrous. The largest of those 30 was a magnitude 4.5 a couple of months ago. It made the news.
Re: SMU & Google find abundance of geothermal energy in US
#7I wonder if something like this could be used to desalinate sea water.
Probably, but I imagine there might be a massive build-up of salt, leaving the "mine" unusable after a while.
Re: SMU & Google find abundance of geothermal energy in US
#8oh, there's an editorial in nature ( http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7275/full/462848a... ) about how this could cause earthquakes? awesome. well, nothing worth doing is risk-free, right? also I love how when google funds something now, they also do it. it seems that all of the investigators were SMU people but because google.org paid for it, now it was discovered by google as well. ;)
'Fraking' has caused earth quakes in the uk, where they are trying to extract the gas down there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing But that is a slightly different thing to geothermal drilling. You're basically drilling 4km down, and putting a big pipe in. Then you run water through it, which heats the water. There have been no earth quakes caused in Australian drilling for geo thermal plants to my…
oh yes, fracking the US has caused both earthquakes and that awesome picture of a woman lighting her tapwater on fire.
just saying, earthquakes.
Re: SMU & Google find abundance of geothermal energy in US
#9I wonder if something like this could be used to desalinate sea water.
Probably, but I imagine there might be a massive build-up of salt, leaving the "mine" unusable after a while.
Nah. It was a bad idea from the start. When you inject the water into the well you'll end up with it carrying all sorts of salts it finds down there.
Re: SMU & Google find abundance of geothermal energy in US
#10oh, there's an editorial in nature ( http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7275/full/462848a... ) about how this could cause earthquakes? awesome. well, nothing worth doing is risk-free, right? also I love how when google funds something now, they also do it. it seems that all of the investigators were SMU people but because google.org paid for it, now it was discovered by google as well. ;)
I know you're just teasing, but: when I say "Our family built a new house" I don't mean that we laid the bricks, I mean we paid to have it built. And I think it's entirely appropriate the the company who expended the resources to make the research happen gets full credit (to the extent that no one mistakes this for evidence of the research capabilities of Google's employees).