Geothermal power

[oil pan 4]

You may be thinking this is another thread hating on fossil free fuel power and you would be correct.
Geothermal power sucks, it's a crap shoot. Now I understand why no one's touched it.
The cost of geothermal is going up, not down.
All the good geo thermal spots are taken.
Think it's as simple as drilling a hole? No, one does not simply drill a hole 4 or 5 miles down. Plus it costs 20 million dollars to drill a steam well. So none of these "geothermal is everywhere man" schemes are going anywhere if they have less than 20 million dollars.
Then if you do drill your well you may get more than you bargained for. You could hit hot sulfuric acid, toxic hydrogen sulfide bearing water, you could get a bunch of poisonous salt build up at the surface, radioactive waste or f up really good and cause a mud volcano. Mud volcanos are fun. Earthquakes, sink holes or the opposite of a sink hole a ground swell. Drill into magma.
Drilling geothermal wells could be opening a very expensive Pandoras box.
https://youtu.be/l6UGpaKnkS0

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l6UGpa...ature=youtu.be

3/4 of geothermal projects that start are abandoned within 2 years. Problems including:
The hole closing up before the casing can be set, hole collapse, snapped drill bit, stuck drill, contaminated steam, not enough steam.

[Piotrsko]

We have a geothermal area in some parts of Reno and I see houses for sale that have it installed. I understand I just need to drill down about 600ft to get it, or so I have been told. MAYBE $50k for the bore hole.

So in effect if you have thermal springs you can do geo without Armageddon. Random drilling deep wells could cause you concern, but surface thermal is somewhat common in the mountainous SW USA.

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by Piotrsko

We have a geothermal area in some parts of Reno and I see houses for sale that have it installed. I understand I just need to drill down about 600ft to get it, or so I have been told. MAYBE $50k for the bore hole.

So in effect if you have thermal springs you can do geo without Armageddon. Random drilling deep wells could cause you concern, but surface thermal is somewhat common in the mountainous SW USA.

You're living inside the caldera of a presently-dormant super volcano, like Yellowstone. With pretty good odds of 'striking' heat!

[aerohead]

I want a date with her!
She can drop atomic zingers without so much as a twinkle in the eye, just like Carol Burnett. What a pro!
If there was a Comedy Corner for geeks, and she were 'performing', I'd abandon my self-imposed, limited driving rule, just to see her schtick.
Great sense of humor.

[oil pan 4]

Originally Posted by aerohead

I want a date with her!
She can drop atomic zingers without so much as a twinkle in the eye, just like Carol Burnett. What a pro!
If there was a Comedy Corner for geeks, and she were 'performing', I'd abandon my self-imposed, limited driving rule, just to see her schtick.
Great sense of humor.

Don't binge watch her videos looking for the ones where she's wearing a thin shirt and no bra.

[freebeard]

Have you seen an episode with the red telephone?

If there is a red telephone in the first act, it will ring before the third act.

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Have you seen an episode with the red telephone?

If there is a red telephone in the first act, it will ring before the third act.

Was this the Carol Burnett Show?

[freebeard]

https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Chekhov's_gun
Chekhov's gun - Wikipedia
If you say in the first act that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third act it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there." — Sergius Shchukin (1911) Memoirs.

The red telephone is a running joke. New Study Finds that Banning Short-Haul Flights Makes Little Sense. I'm paused at 5:47 and it hasn't rung yet. It doesn't ring if it's not there?

[oil pan 4]

Geothermal is like hydro electric. It's done most of what it can do in the US.

[freebeard]

You must like that chart. I've seen it four times now.