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On the sister thread to this one: Greece Europe Energy Russia Problem s Solved. You re Welcome. US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum that was placed in the "Europe" dungeon...while this one remains in politics... your group pointed out thatFeel free to invest all your money in your green energy plan.
I'm sure you'll save Greece and make millions.
1. Geothermal causes earthquakes! 2. Geothermal is too risky! 3. Geothermal is too expensive! and 4. Greece can't afford so little energy for such a huge investment!
To which I responded:
1. Pumping water into hot rock in extremely localized areas doesn't cause whole fault lines to shift. You cannot prove a causal agent like that. What an absurd claim! However, blasting away at entire zones of rock strata like is done in fracking is causing swarms of earthquakes with bullseyes right around fracking operations, consistenly. Yet I don't see you complaining about that. You must like the oil industry more than geothermal. Perhaps you consider them "the enemy" and would make up something like "they cause earthquakes and are expensive" to drive would-be investors away?
2. Yes, I'm sure it's very risky (compared to fracking and destroying whole layers of the earth with a toxic sludge, just under aquifers using brittle well casings that will crack with the earthquakes produced by fracking; causing capillary seepage upwards of the toxic stew into the aquifers above). Putting a straw in the ground that pumps fresh water on to hot rock and then recovering that hot water doesn't hurt a damn thing, and it's easy too. No chemical stew needed to extract it, like fracking.
3. Well, people can build gold-plated steam turbines and platinum-lined floors with rubies and emeralds studded in the walls but the simple fact is that geothermal and linear solar thermal plants should be cheap snap to set up. If their costs are artificially elevated to "make them look too pricey for the returns"...I again would suspect BigOil doing so, just like they engineered-to fail those huge circular jokes of solar thermal arrays..with flat mirrors placed 1/2 a mile away from this super high elevated tower that got up to under 100c. Wow! Meanwhile the builders of that joke knew at the time that the parabolic mirror, linear arrays got quickly up to 300 degrees c and cost a fraction of the money to build. They're even made modular so they snap together like a lego set. Watch the video in the OP.
4. See #1, #2 & #3...