And Now For Our Science Lesson Of The Day

[Old Rocks]

Just curious, if the temperature at the sun's surface is 5 thousand degrees and the temperature above the surface is more than a million degrees. How can heat move from where it's cooler to where it's hotter? Wouldn't it move from where it's hotter to where it's cooler?

When you are measuring the degree of heat on the sun's surface, you are measuring the heat output of a gaseous body. When measuring the heat above the sun's surface, you are measuring the degree of ionization of the individual atoms.

 

[Old Rocks]

I should always remember that folks like you have to be spoon-fed, teaspoon by teaspoon.

You see, Al "Failed Out of College" Gore is the Prime Mover of the Global Governance Scam.

It was in all the papers, didn't ya see it?

So, it's more than passing humorous that the Pied Piper of Global Governance doesn't know anything about science.

Get it? Got it? Good!

And what's even funnier is that folks like you get bent out of shape when Gore thinks he's living on a body closer in temperature to the Sun- and you don't see the humor!


OK, maybe that one doesn't play well in your schoolyard. Try this:

Did you hear that the federal government is sending a manned mission to land on the Sun to study it?

Burned up? No...

They're going at night!

Pretty damned stupid PC. You and PI are very similiar in your ability to ignore the obvious. Al Gore, a politician and successful investor, did not know the temperature of the earth's core. So what? He never has stated that he was a scientist. What he has stated is that he put scientists concerns over Global warming into layman's terms, and did so pretty damned well.

I really don't care about Gore's grades in college. So he acted like a rich man's son, as so many like him did. His acheivements since that time have proven his intellect, unlike his opponent of 2000.

Your own ignorance on science has always been apparent. So why are you casting stones?

Oh, no.

Another round of whack-a-mole!

"...proven his intellect..."

"After enrolling in Vanderbilt’s prestigious divinity school, over the course of three semesters, he failed five of his eight classes. Gore’s allies claim that the birth of his first child and his duties as a reporter at the Tennessean newspaper kept him from his studies. For the record, though, Gore also later dropped out of Vanderbilt’s law school (in 1976), ..."
mental_floss Blog » 5 Surprising Divinity School Dropouts



"...proven his intellect..."
"But Al Gore refuses to debate those who say global warming is not a crisis.

Maybe it’s because climate alarmists tend to lose when they debate climate realists. Or because most scientists do not support climate alarmism.

Dennis Avery, coauthor of the best-selling book Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, is still waiting for Gore to respond to his April 16 formal debate challenge:

[Our two] books represent the two leading explanations for the earth’s recent temperature changes—and they conflict. If global warming truly is the most important public policy issue of our day, then it is high time the public got to hear the arguments from both sides matched up against each other. How else can people make informed decisions? Therefore, I formally challenge you to debate me at a public event, preferably to be televised or carried by a radio station, sometime in the coming months."

Why Won’t Al Gore Debate? - by Joseph L. Bast - News Releases




"...proven his intellect..."
"How telling it is he runs away from open honest debate. How telling indeed.

In 2007 Lord Monckton a former policy adviser to Margaret Thatcher challenged Al Gore to “an internationally televised, head-to-head, nation-unto-nation confrontation on the question, “That our effect on climate is not dangerous.”


Al Gore afraid of debate prefers to hide under his desk instead
Monckton calls on the former Vice President to “step up to the plate and defend his advocacy of policies that could do grave harm to the welfare of the world’s poor. If Mr. Gore really believes global warming is the defining issue of our time, the greatest threat human civilization has ever faced, and then he should welcome the opportunity to raise the profile of the issue before a worldwide audience of billions by defining and defending his claims against a serious, science-based challenge”.


Now I get it, Rocks!

Many folks are enamored with those superior to themselves- you know, like you and Al Gore.

Monkton is a charleton and a liar. Got his ass handed to him when he presumed to lecture the American Physical Society;


American Physical Society stomps on Monckton disinformation — thank you Climate Progress readers « Climate Progress

American Physical Society stomps on Monckton disinformation — thank you Climate Progress readers
July 19, 2008
The country’s largest organization of physicists is working fast to restore its good name, which was damaged by one ignorant editor of a non-peer-reviewed newsletter. That editor, Jeff Marque, published a previously-debunked analysis by failed conservative politician and non-scientist Lord Monckton.

The Council of the American Physical Society quickly responded to the uproar over this disinformation by adding a new disclaimer to the Monckton article:

This article has not undergone any scientific peer review. Its conclusions are in disagreement with the overwhelming opinion of the world scientific community. The Council of the American Physical Society disagrees with this article’s conclusions.

There is no need to waste any further time here debunking Monckton’s “sleight-of-hand to fool the unwary,” as RealClimate put it. As the APS makes clear, just because somebody uses a lot of numbers and formulas, that doesn’t make their analysis either scientific or credible.

Al Gore raised the whole worlds awareness of the oncoming dangers of global warming and the resultant climate change. He has now moved on to working with others on the way to power our industry with further damaging the world that our children will inherit.

I fully realize that you Consevatives do not believe in any science that does not have Tom DeLay's or Inhofe's approval, but most of the rest of us are not that stupid.

 

[Old Rocks]

No, we should just ignore Al Gore.

Go ahead. The rest of the world is not.

Speaking for 6.3 billion people, are we now?

The audiences that Al Gore draws world wide speak for him, and the worldwide opinion of him.

 

[elvis]

Pretty damned stupid PC. You and PI are very similiar in your ability to ignore the obvious. Al Gore, a politician and successful investor, did not know the temperature of the earth's core. So what? He never has stated that he was a scientist. What he has stated is that he put scientists concerns over Global warming into layman's terms, and did so pretty damned well.

I really don't care about Gore's grades in college. So he acted like a rich man's son, as so many like him did. His acheivements since that time have proven his intellect, unlike his opponent of 2000.

Your own ignorance on science has always been apparent. So why are you casting stones?

Oh, no.

Another round of whack-a-mole!

"...proven his intellect..."

"After enrolling in Vanderbilt’s prestigious divinity school, over the course of three semesters, he failed five of his eight classes. Gore’s allies claim that the birth of his first child and his duties as a reporter at the Tennessean newspaper kept him from his studies. For the record, though, Gore also later dropped out of Vanderbilt’s law school (in 1976), ..."
mental_floss Blog » 5 Surprising Divinity School Dropouts



"...proven his intellect..."
"But Al Gore refuses to debate those who say global warming is not a crisis.

Maybe it’s because climate alarmists tend to lose when they debate climate realists. Or because most scientists do not support climate alarmism.

Dennis Avery, coauthor of the best-selling book Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, is still waiting for Gore to respond to his April 16 formal debate challenge:

[Our two] books represent the two leading explanations for the earth’s recent temperature changes—and they conflict. If global warming truly is the most important public policy issue of our day, then it is high time the public got to hear the arguments from both sides matched up against each other. How else can people make informed decisions? Therefore, I formally challenge you to debate me at a public event, preferably to be televised or carried by a radio station, sometime in the coming months."

Why Won’t Al Gore Debate? - by Joseph L. Bast - News Releases




"...proven his intellect..."
"How telling it is he runs away from open honest debate. How telling indeed.

In 2007 Lord Monckton a former policy adviser to Margaret Thatcher challenged Al Gore to “an internationally televised, head-to-head, nation-unto-nation confrontation on the question, “That our effect on climate is not dangerous.”


Al Gore afraid of debate prefers to hide under his desk instead
Monckton calls on the former Vice President to “step up to the plate and defend his advocacy of policies that could do grave harm to the welfare of the world’s poor. If Mr. Gore really believes global warming is the defining issue of our time, the greatest threat human civilization has ever faced, and then he should welcome the opportunity to raise the profile of the issue before a worldwide audience of billions by defining and defending his claims against a serious, science-based challenge”.


Now I get it, Rocks!

Many folks are enamored with those superior to themselves- you know, like you and Al Gore.

Monkton is a charleton and a liar. Got his ass handed to him when he presumed to lecture the American Physical Society;


American Physical Society stomps on Monckton disinformation — thank you Climate Progress readers « Climate Progress

American Physical Society stomps on Monckton disinformation — thank you Climate Progress readers
July 19, 2008
The country’s largest organization of physicists is working fast to restore its good name, which was damaged by one ignorant editor of a non-peer-reviewed newsletter. That editor, Jeff Marque, published a previously-debunked analysis by failed conservative politician and non-scientist Lord Monckton.

The Council of the American Physical Society quickly responded to the uproar over this disinformation by adding a new disclaimer to the Monckton article:

This article has not undergone any scientific peer review. Its conclusions are in disagreement with the overwhelming opinion of the world scientific community. The Council of the American Physical Society disagrees with this article’s conclusions.

There is no need to waste any further time here debunking Monckton’s “sleight-of-hand to fool the unwary,” as RealClimate put it. As the APS makes clear, just because somebody uses a lot of numbers and formulas, that doesn’t make their analysis either scientific or credible.

Al Gore raised the whole worlds awareness of the oncoming dangers of global warming and the resultant climate change. He has now moved on to working with others on the way to power our industry with further damaging the world that our children will inherit.

I fully realize that you Consevatives do not believe in any science that does not have Tom DeLay's or Inhofe's approval, but most of the rest of us are not that stupid.

case in point. Someone refuses to gag on Algore's cock and Rockhead throws an Alzheimer's-induced tantrum. Sounds like a four-year old in the cereal aisle.

 

[Si modo]

Pretty damned stupid PC. You and PI are very similiar in your ability to ignore the obvious. Al Gore, a politician and successful investor, did not know the temperature of the earth's core. So what? He never has stated that he was a scientist. What he has stated is that he put scientists concerns over Global warming into layman's terms, and did so pretty damned well.

I really don't care about Gore's grades in college. So he acted like a rich man's son, as so many like him did. His acheivements since that time have proven his intellect, unlike his opponent of 2000.

Your own ignorance on science has always been apparent. So why are you casting stones?

Oh, no.

Another round of whack-a-mole!

"...proven his intellect..."

"After enrolling in Vanderbilt’s prestigious divinity school, over the course of three semesters, he failed five of his eight classes. Gore’s allies claim that the birth of his first child and his duties as a reporter at the Tennessean newspaper kept him from his studies. For the record, though, Gore also later dropped out of Vanderbilt’s law school (in 1976), ..."
mental_floss Blog » 5 Surprising Divinity School Dropouts



"...proven his intellect..."
"But Al Gore refuses to debate those who say global warming is not a crisis.

Maybe it’s because climate alarmists tend to lose when they debate climate realists. Or because most scientists do not support climate alarmism.

Dennis Avery, coauthor of the best-selling book Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, is still waiting for Gore to respond to his April 16 formal debate challenge:

[Our two] books represent the two leading explanations for the earth’s recent temperature changes—and they conflict. If global warming truly is the most important public policy issue of our day, then it is high time the public got to hear the arguments from both sides matched up against each other. How else can people make informed decisions? Therefore, I formally challenge you to debate me at a public event, preferably to be televised or carried by a radio station, sometime in the coming months."

Why Won’t Al Gore Debate? - by Joseph L. Bast - News Releases




"...proven his intellect..."
"How telling it is he runs away from open honest debate. How telling indeed.

In 2007 Lord Monckton a former policy adviser to Margaret Thatcher challenged Al Gore to “an internationally televised, head-to-head, nation-unto-nation confrontation on the question, “That our effect on climate is not dangerous.”


Al Gore afraid of debate prefers to hide under his desk instead
Monckton calls on the former Vice President to “step up to the plate and defend his advocacy of policies that could do grave harm to the welfare of the world’s poor. If Mr. Gore really believes global warming is the defining issue of our time, the greatest threat human civilization has ever faced, and then he should welcome the opportunity to raise the profile of the issue before a worldwide audience of billions by defining and defending his claims against a serious, science-based challenge”.


Now I get it, Rocks!

Many folks are enamored with those superior to themselves- you know, like you and Al Gore.

Monkton is a charleton and a liar. Got his ass handed to him when he presumed to lecture the American Physical Society;


American Physical Society stomps on Monckton disinformation — thank you Climate Progress readers « Climate Progress

American Physical Society stomps on Monckton disinformation — thank you Climate Progress readers
July 19, 2008
The country’s largest organization of physicists is working fast to restore its good name, which was damaged by one ignorant editor of a non-peer-reviewed newsletter. That editor, Jeff Marque, published a previously-debunked analysis by failed conservative politician and non-scientist Lord Monckton.

The Council of the American Physical Society quickly responded to the uproar over this disinformation by adding a new disclaimer to the Monckton article:

This article has not undergone any scientific peer review. Its conclusions are in disagreement with the overwhelming opinion of the world scientific community. The Council of the American Physical Society disagrees with this article’s conclusions.

There is no need to waste any further time here debunking Monckton’s “sleight-of-hand to fool the unwary,” as RealClimate put it. As the APS makes clear, just because somebody uses a lot of numbers and formulas, that doesn’t make their analysis either scientific or credible.

Al Gore raised the whole worlds awareness of the oncoming dangers of global warming and the resultant climate change. He has now moved on to working with others on the way to power our industry with further damaging the world that our children will inherit.

I fully realize that you Consevatives do not believe in any science that does not have Tom DeLay's or Inhofe's approval, but most of the rest of us are not that stupid.

Everything mentioned about Monckton is the same for Gore, even as a failed politician.

So, the playing field is level for these two non-scientists and failed politicians who use sleight of hand when playing at science.

We know why Gore won't debate scientists, but not even an equal? Gore has no balls, apparently; or too much of his profits are at stake.

 

[Old Rocks]

Once again, Elvis displays his fetish with the male organs. Out of the closet yet, old boy?

 

[elvis]

Once again, Elvis displays his fetish with the male organs. Out of the closet yet, old boy?

Chrissy's dick out of your ass yet, Old ****? Explaining what someone does, namely you, does not constitute a fetish. It also doesn't indicate someone is "in the closet". But then, you enjoy practicing pseudo-science, don't you, Old ****?

 

[rdean]

Just curious, if the temperature at the sun's surface is 5 thousand degrees and the temperature above the surface is more than a million degrees. How can heat move from where it's cooler to where it's hotter? Wouldn't it move from where it's hotter to where it's cooler?

When you are measuring the degree of heat on the sun's surface, you are measuring the heat output of a gaseous body. When measuring the heat above the sun's surface, you are measuring the degree of ionization of the individual atoms.

And that is caused by?

 

[xotoxi]

This is some really funny reading!

But I have one question for the esteemed OP:

Was this thread initiated to discuss geothermal energy...or was it initiated to point out how much of a blubbering windbag Al Gore is?

If it was the latter, the thread can now be shut down as the point has been clearly made.

If it is the former, then I haven't seen you offer into the discussion your opinion on geothermal energy nor have your made a contribution to the thread any more intelligent than our former VP.

 

[American Horse]

In the interest of science and astronomy, here is some interesting information: The center of the Earth may be about 15,000F. As one leaves the surface of the Earth and approaches its center the temperature increases in a roughly linear gradient scale of about 1-deg-F per 100 foot of depth. The temperature of the ground at about a depth of 5' or in a cave is about 54F.

The temperature at the surface, (the photosphere) of the sun is a mere 10,000F more or less, which amazingly is less hot than the center of the Earth, but about 100 miles to 500 miles above the sun's "surface" in the chromosphere the temperature is about 50,000F. Just above the chromosphere is the corona where the temperature varies from 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
The temperature at the Center of the sun is about 27,000,000F.

References to geothermal heating systems also refer to a ground loop piping laid in the soil at a depth of about 6-feet used to transfer heat from the Earth into the heat exchanger of furnace inside a home, reversing in the summer time to give up heat from the heat exchanger taken from the home and giving it up into the cooler soil. During a long heating or cooling season these systems lose efficiency as the soil surrounding the loop becomes saturated or surcharged with heat or cold.

Al Gore was referring to geothermal energy such as is found at Yellowstone's geysers or on the island of Iceland where there are faults between tectonic plates bringing hot inner material near enough to the surface to access it efficiently and economically. On average though, the Earth's surface tectonic plates are bout 70-miles thick. This would require a huge investment for drilling for extracting energy from such depths, and is not very economically feasible; just nice in theory.

 

[Old Rocks]

In the interest of science and astronomy, here is some interesting information: The center of the Earth may be about 15,000F. As one leaves the surface of the Earth and approaches its center the temperature increases in a roughly linear gradient scale of about 1-deg-F per 100 foot of depth. The temperature of the ground at about a depth of 5' or in a cave is about 54F.

The temperature at the surface, (the photosphere) of the sun is a mere 10,000F more or less, which amazingly is less hot than the center of the Earth, but about 100 miles to 500 miles above the sun's "surface" in the chromosphere the temperature is about 50,000F. Just above the chromosphere is the corona where the temperature varies from 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
The temperature at the Center of the sun is about 27,000,000F.

References to geothermal heating systems also refer to a ground loop piping laid in the soil at a depth of about 6-feet used to transfer heat from the Earth into the heat exchanger of furnace inside a home, reversing in the summer time to give up heat from the heat exchanger taken from the home and giving it up into the cooler soil. During a long heating or cooling season these systems lose efficiency as the soil surrounding the loop becomes saturated or surcharged with heat or cold.

Al Gore was referring to geothermal energy such as is found at Yellowstone's geysers or on the island of Iceland where there are faults between tectonic plates bringing hot inner material near enough to the surface to access it efficiently and economically. On average though, the Earth's surface tectonic plates are bout 70-miles thick. This would require a huge investment for drilling for extracting energy from such depths, and is not very economically feasible; just nice in theory.

Wrong. Water at only 180 F. can be used very economicaly to drive generators for geothermal generation. And we have sources that warm and more over 1/2 of Oregon. And almost all of Nevada. At depths less than 5000 ft. At standard depths for deep oil wells, much of the US is a good source of geothermal, according to this MIT study;

MIT-led panel backs 'heat mining' as key U.S. energy source

 

[PoliticalChic]

Al Gore raised the whole worlds awareness of the oncoming dangers of global warming and the resultant climate change. He has now moved on to working with others on the way to power our industry with further damaging the world that our children will inherit.

I fully realize that you Consevatives do not believe in any science that does not have Tom DeLay's or Inhofe's approval, but most of the rest of us are not that stupid.

This just in: Al Gore may be even less of a scientist than Rocks!

"Prison Planet.com
Thursday, November 19, 2009

With the increasingly discredited notion of man-made global warming crashing and burning on a daily basis, climate alarmists are being forced to accelerate their fearmongering to unprecedented levels. With the evidence failing to match up to the doomsday proclamations, Al Gore has turned to photoshop in order to make a CO2-choked earth look scary enough to sell his cap and trade scam.

The latest example of climate cult fakery comes in the form of the front cover of Al Gore’s new book, Our Choice; A Plan To Solve The Climate Crisis.

Shortly after the devastation of Katrina, Al Gore was busy making a correlation between hurricanes and global warming in an effort to drive home his claim that higher global CO2 emissions cause an increase in extreme weather events. The cover art for Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, features an image of a hurricane rising out of a smoke stack.

Seemingly underwhelmed that there have been no major hurricanes since Katrina, along with the fact that global hurricane activity is now at a thirty year low, Gore came up with an ingenious method of solving the problem of the lack of scary depictions of frightening hurricanes to display on his book – simply airbrush them in!"
Alex Jones’ Prison Planet.com » With Hurricanes At Thirty Year Low, Gore Turns To Photoshop

 

[Old Rocks]

2006, 2007, 2008. Three years of no catastrophic hurricanes. A good thing. Hopefully, it continues.

The article on the feasiblity and economics of geothermal generation was done by a team of MIT engineers. Of course, your politically driven opinions are worth far more than their years of training and experiance. We should all realize that, shouldn't we?

 

[American Horse]

<SNIP>
Al Gore was referring to geothermal energy such as is found at Yellowstone's geysers or on the island of Iceland where there are faults between tectonic plates bringing hot inner material near enough to the surface to access it efficiently and economically. On average though, the Earth's surface tectonic plates are bout 70-miles thick. This would require a huge investment for drilling for extracting energy from such depths, and is not very economically feasible; just nice in theory.

Wrong. Water at only 180 F. can be used very economicaly to drive generators for geothermal generation. And we have sources that warm and more over 1/2 of Oregon. And almost all of Nevada. At depths less than 5000 ft. At standard depths for deep oil wells, much of the US is a good source of geothermal, according to this MIT study;

MIT-led panel backs 'heat mining' as key U.S. energy source

I read the article and also the PDF source material. I did not pick up on the 180 F data point at which we can economically drive generators for geothermal generation. Could you help me with an exact page number for that temperature if it is in the PDF?

BTW: My calculations show the temperature rise according to the map (link below page 1-14; page 28 of 372) to increase at about a rate of 1 - F degree per 109 feet linearly. At that rate even for 180 F rock at depth in the eastern part of the country (The dark green - 3.5 km map at the top) one has to go to a depth of 16,000+ feet; BUT for 100 C (212 F boiling of water) one would have to go to 21,280 feet on average in that darg green region.


&#8220;The Future of Geothermal Energy
Impact of Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) on the United States in the 21st Century (PDF)&#8221;

 

[Screaming Eagle]

I think Al Gore is truly insane.

As far as the sun goes there is a simple experiment you can do to see why it is hotter 'above' the sun. Get a lighter and a stick pin and stick the needle into the flame and watch it. It will only get red hot outside of the flame or above it, same thing for the sun.

 

[Old Rocks]

Eagle, what you are observing is a chemical based reaction, not the same as the sun. The sun is nuclear, not chemical, and the forces involved are totally differant.

 

[Old Rocks]

RNP: Renewable Energy Technology: Geothermal

A binary power plant is used for moderate-temperature resources. The hot water from a geothermal source is used to heat a secondary working fluid, such as ammonia or isobutane, in a closed-loop system. The working fluid is vaporized in a heat exchanger and is then used to drive a turbine-generator. A cooling system is used to condense the vaporized working fluid back into liquid form to begin the process again. The hot water from the geothermal resource is injected back into the reservoir. The hot water and the working fluid are kept separate, so that environmental issues are minimal.

 

[Old Rocks]

Southern Oregon town takes geothermal lead | Daily Journal of Commerce (Portland, OR) | Find Articles at BNET

While 235 degrees Fahrenheit is certainly hot, it's not hot enough to run a traditional steam power plant. The Energy Department classifies the Paisley plant as a "low-temperature project."

Low-temperature geothermal plants are also called binary plants, because they use two separate fluids to produce electricity. Hot water is pumped from the well and passes through a heat exchanger, where it heats a fluid with a lower boiling point than water.

Vapor from that fluid turns a turbine, which turns a power generator. The second fluid condenses and returns to the loop system. Separately, the water is pumped back into the aquifer.

On the Douglas property, the hot water could take a useful detour, Erin Douglas said. It would pass through a second heat exchanger to warm a fish-farming pond.

Oregonians have used geothermal energy for warming and other purposes for years, said Diana Enright, spokeswoman with the state's Department of Energy. But no utility produces electricity from the state's underground heat.

The Paisley project could capture renewable energy more consistently than wind or solar plants, Enright said.

"The great thing about geothermal is it's base-load energy," she said. "That means it produces 24-7."

 

[Old Rocks]

Geothermal power - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The binary cycle power plant was first demonstrated in 1967 in Russia and later introduced to the USA in 1981.[34] This technology allows the generation of electricity from much lower temperature resources than was previously viable. In 2006, a binary cycle plant in Chena Hot Springs, Alaska, came on-line, producing electricity from a record low fluid temperature of 57 °C.[

 

[Old Rocks]

<SNIP>
Al Gore was referring to geothermal energy such as is found at Yellowstone's geysers or on the island of Iceland where there are faults between tectonic plates bringing hot inner material near enough to the surface to access it efficiently and economically. On average though, the Earth's surface tectonic plates are bout 70-miles thick. This would require a huge investment for drilling for extracting energy from such depths, and is not very economically feasible; just nice in theory.

Wrong. Water at only 180 F. can be used very economicaly to drive generators for geothermal generation. And we have sources that warm and more over 1/2 of Oregon. And almost all of Nevada. At depths less than 5000 ft. At standard depths for deep oil wells, much of the US is a good source of geothermal, according to this MIT study;

MIT-led panel backs 'heat mining' as key U.S. energy source

I read the article and also the PDF source material. I did not pick up on the 180 F data point at which we can economically drive generators for geothermal generation. Could you help me with an exact page number for that temperature if it is in the PDF?

BTW: My calculations show the temperature rise according to the map (link below page 1-14; page 28 of 372) to increase at about a rate of 1 - F degree per 109 feet linearly. At that rate even for 180 F rock at depth in the eastern part of the country (The dark green - 3.5 km map at the top) one has to go to a depth of 16,000+ feet; BUT for 100 C (212 F boiling of water) one would have to go to 21,280 feet on average in that darg green region.


“The Future of Geothermal Energy
Impact of Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) on the United States in the 21st Century (PDF)”

Wrong. Water at only 180 F. can be used very economicaly to drive generators for geothermal generation. And we have sources that warm and more over 1/2 of Oregon. And almost all of Nevada. At depths less than 5000 ft. At standard depths for deep oil wells, much of the US is a good source of geothermal, according to this MIT study;

MIT-led panel backs 'heat mining' as key U.S. energy source

The MIT study was concerning standard oil well depths, as I stated. You misread my post. However, I posted several referances to the present binary technology, including a referance to the Chena plant which is currently operating.