Posts Tagged ‘Geothermal’

Geothermal Tremors

Posted by: Steven Gervais

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

It was no surprise to me that the Basel geothermal plant in Switzerland was suspended, because more than 10,000 earthquakes occurred in the first 6 days of water injection, with some earthquakes measuring 3.4 on the Richter Scale (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007AGUFM.V53F..08D).

After all, Earth is a whole, living organism; a ‘mother’ for all life. All of life is birthed ‘in Earth’ and kept alive by her waters, nutrients and air. I say ‘in Earth’ rather than ‘on’, because Earth is not just a surface in which the drama of our lives is unfolding – she extends up into the fullness of the atmosphere to transport water vapor, moderate temperature, (more…)

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Geothermal Toxins

Posted by: Steven Gervais

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

A Nobel Laureate winner in Physics and a chemical engineering professor at MIT are hopeful that geothermal, particularly ‘Enhanced Geothermal Systems’, will be the renewable energy solution to extend geothermal power generation beyond plate boundaries to almost anywhere on Earth (see brief video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6r_3AgI49Y&feature=player_embedded).

Drilling 4-10 kilometers into Earth’s crust and injecting water to create thousands of small pathways for the water to flow, be heated, and brought back to the surface to power turbines and generate electricity, also inevitably carries back to the surface (more…)

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