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Anonymous Tue 08 Dec 21:43:58 2020 No.12436801 View Reply Original Report

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Why isn't there more interest in geothermal energy?

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Anonymous Tue 08 Dec 2020 21:52:23 No.12436841 Report

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>>12436801
Fossil fuels are taking advantage of human stupidity to stymie anything that might actually work to rival them, like nuclear or fusion.

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Anonymous Tue 08 Dec 2020 21:58:37 No.12436874 Report

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>>12436801
There aren't many suitable spots for it

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Anonymous Tue 08 Dec 2020 22:48:29 No.12437657 Report

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>>12436841
I feel like I hear about nuclear more than geo though

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Anonymous Tue 08 Dec 2020 22:54:47 No.12437701 Report

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>>12436801
There's enough energy in the air and seawater, you don't even have to dig.

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Anonymous Tue 08 Dec 2020 22:57:58 No.12437721 Report

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>>12436801
They aren't always suitable
The actual efficiency of them is quite low
Depending on the demand it may not even be worth it over existing infrastructure

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Anonymous Tue 08 Dec 2020 23:00:18 No.12437740 Report

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>>12436841
>more D2O in my water supply please!
no thanks

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Anonymous Tue 08 Dec 2020 23:11:43 No.12437822 Report

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>>12437740
What? It's just a little heavy water, you might gain a few lbs that's all.

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Anonymous Tue 08 Dec 2020 23:18:53 No.12437879 Report

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>>12436801
People don't care about anything, and you have to disprove this as a normative statement, not an individual one (see: "anecdotes aren't evidence").

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Anonymous Tue 08 Dec 2020 23:31:54 No.12437965 Report

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>>12436841
Ok Buddy, you had your 1 1/2 minutes of fame, hop into your 2008 Hummer H3 and drive to your parents home.

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Anonymous Tue 08 Dec 2020 23:50:42 No.12438056 Report

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>>12436801
Earth be thicccc mang

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Anonymous Wed 09 Dec 2020 00:07:04 No.12438133 Report

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1) not everywhere cost of geotermal powerplant is low. A lot of it depends on location 2) Geotermal resources tend to run out. Search for "blue laguna resort" in Iceland. They need to bore new geothermal borehole every few years. 3) It tends to increase local seismic activity. That all pumping of water and increased pressures creates quite high stress, which can result in increased amounts of localized earthquakes, which might damage buildings and equipment in surrounding area (say, within 20 km).

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Anonymous Wed 09 Dec 2020 00:11:37 No.12438158 Report

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>>12436801
Why do firstoids can only think about heating water to move turbines?

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Anonymous Wed 09 Dec 2020 04:32:32 No.12439036 Report

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>>12436801
tends to cause earthquakes. Improvements in drilling might make it possible to have geothermal power in much of the USA.

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Anonymous Wed 09 Dec 2020 15:14:06 No.12440314 Report

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>>12439036
Is it also regularly disrupted by earthquakes?

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Anonymous Wed 09 Dec 2020 16:03:59 No.12440480 Report

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>>12436801
why do you have to cool the output water?

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Anonymous Wed 09 Dec 2020 16:52:37 No.12440630 Report

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>>12440480
Because it's steam

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Anonymous Wed 09 Dec 2020 16:53:28 No.12440635 Report

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>>12436801
Partly due to difficulty in finding a source and partly due to 'green' lobbies protesting anything that isn't wind and solar.

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Anonymous Wed 09 Dec 2020 19:31:33 No.12441392 Report

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>>12436841
>nuclear or fusion
>or

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Anonymous Wed 09 Dec 2020 21:15:02 No.12442211 Report

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Poo energy>>>>>geothermal energy

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Anonymous Wed 09 Dec 2020 21:29:41 No.12442405 Report

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>>12440480
The higher delta T you have the more electricity you get

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Anonymous Wed 09 Dec 2020 22:57:52 No.12443557 Report

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>>12436801
It only works in areas with high enough geothermal gradients. It works in Iceland because of the magmatism and has the potential to work in areas with a high proportion of magmatic intrusions like in parts of the Highlands of Scotland; but isn't efficient enough to work in reality to be applicable with drilling really deep boreholes.

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Anonymous Wed 09 Dec 2020 23:47:24 No.12444232 Report

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>>12436801
Geothermal energy is highly location dependent.
At a smaller scale, people like to use geothermal heating to stabilize the temperature of their homes.
This technique (heat pumps) is known to work poorly in winter, but great in the summer.

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Anonymous Wed 09 Dec 2020 23:50:04 No.12444260 Report

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>>12436801
It's highly dependent on location. Iceland makes great use of it because it's literally situation on a continental shelf. You can't really do it anywhere where it's not volcanically active.

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Anonymous Thu 10 Dec 2020 02:15:00 No.12445283 Report

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very few compatible sites

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Anonymous Thu 10 Dec 2020 02:54:04 No.12445510 Report

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>>12436801
I know of a building that was heated with geothermal. It was pretty good for a few years but after a while I guess the heat got tapped out and it became freezing cold in there all the time.

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Anonymous Thu 10 Dec 2020 13:02:55 No.12447649 Report

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>>12436874
uuh what are volcanoes sweetie??

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Anonymous Thu 10 Dec 2020 13:58:08 No.12447801 Report

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>>12436841
>or
dude both fission and fusion are nuclear

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