Reply #2: There is nothing you can see? [View All]

[NNadir]

Well, for once, I have to concede you're right about something, just like a stopped clock is right twice a day.

To see something you would have had to have had looked, but "looking" at this sort of thing aneducation, plus critical thinking skills.

If your skills consist entirely, on the other hand, of glib handwaving and wishful thinking, it is best to stick to worshipping solar pool lights on the marble perimeter.

The first geothermal electric plant in the world was commissioned in Italy about 1913.

Plants at the Geysers have operated in California for many decades, although they are declining, um, because its energy has been consumed.

What in your imagination has prevented all this experience from doing that about which you hand wave after all of this experience?

You don't know?

Why am I not surprised?

In a way, it is hard to imagine that those responsible for all the senile opposition to the world's largest, by far, source of climate change gas free energy - which happily has lower carbon dioxide emissions than geothermal energy - which in any case, after almost a century of talk still doesn't produce 1 exajoule out of the 500 exajoules of energy used by humanity.

If in fact, one cited references rather than daydreams, one could find out the following information:

On the other hand, the geothermal electricity environmental impacts are not a negligible matter. The range in CO2 emissions from hightemperature geothermal fields used for electricity production in the world is <2> 3–380 g/kWh, whereas the CO2 emissions are 453 g/kWh for natural gas, 906 g/kWh for oil and 1042 g/kWh for coal.

or

Some 80 countries have identified geothermal resources, and about 50 have quantifiable geothermal utilization at present <2>. Electricity is produced from geothermal energies in 24 countries, spread all over the world, with a capacity of 8.4GW <6> and direct applications is recorded in 35 countries (34TWh/a). In the year of 1999 the top ten
producing countries, in MWe, were: USA (2228), Philippines (1909), Italy (785), Mexico (755), Indonesia (590), Japan (547), New Zealand (437), Iceland (170), El Salvador (161), and Costa Rica (143) <6,7,>. United States is still the leading producing country while there was an
“entry” of Germany, Austria and Papua New Guinea, in the field of geothermal Electricity .

ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/4272346/4272347/04272419.pdf


Any concept of scale?

No?

Why am I not suprised?

Do you know how tiny 2228 MWe is?

Get off your ass and drive down to the Redondo Beach AES dangerous natural gas fueled power plant!

It is rated at 1,310 MWe, or about half the capacity of all the Geothermal power plants in the entire United States.

The Polk coal fired power plant in Florida produces more energy than all of the geothermal power plants than the entire the United States, which has been producing geothermal electricity for decades

This is not to say that the Polk coal fired power plant is acceptable - not to me at least - but I think it is morally disgusting to pretend that geothermal energy will shut it in the life time of any one reading this post, from senile old bastards at the louging lazily by the solar pool light solar heated pool to serious teenagers who are terrified at their deliberately ravaged future.