"One should doubtless keep an open mind...though open at both ends, like the food pipe, and have a capacity for excretion as well as intake." -- Northrop Frye, 'The Great Code'
The big problem with Geothermal is the contaminants in the steam produced - acids, leachates, etc. If you pumped this steam directly into a turbine, it would be destroyed by corrosion within a week.
Turbines need "clean" superheated steam, and the underground steam would need to be filtered or directed through a heat-exchanger (and here lies the problem!) with accordingly reduced efficiency, to produce "clean" steam.
The bubbling pools of Iceland and New Zealand have heated homes for decades, but for base-load power???
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Al Gore's favorite green product is your money in his pocket.
ReplyDeleteHA! Good one anon!
ReplyDeleteSo, Gore thinks it's bad to drill for oil, but good to drill for heat, so we can further heat up our supposedly heating world? Do I have that right?
Good one too, Hunter! Drilling for heat. All Al knows is that bad heat comes only from CO2.
ReplyDeleteThe big problem with Geothermal is the contaminants in the steam produced - acids, leachates, etc. If you pumped this steam directly into a turbine, it would be destroyed by corrosion within a week.
ReplyDeleteTurbines need "clean" superheated steam, and the underground steam would need to be filtered or directed through a heat-exchanger (and here lies the problem!) with accordingly reduced efficiency, to produce "clean" steam.
The bubbling pools of Iceland and New Zealand have heated homes for decades, but for base-load power???
The only "hot rocks" are in Al's big head.
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ReplyDeleteI'm not exactly sure bout how precise the data given there iz. If some people over here who had experience with these things can have a look and give your feedback in the site it will be great and I would highly value it, cauze I extremely would love to try solar panel construction.
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