Please locate, where in the prior post, he was against exploration or dismissive of alternative energy sources? He was not. You are errecting a straw-man, which is your only course of action since you can't argue the points made. You are typical of so many ignorant people who think they know something. Hint: you don't know jack.
FEAR! Run! They are out to get us! Big Oil owns the planet and every person on this forum! *quakes in fear!* ...Take your fear mongering elsewhere. You are not scaring us.
Look, if you want to play stupid games and run around with your hands over your ears, fine. The rest of us 'think'.
A: Drilling to the depths required to reach the temps on this map, which still only cover 1/3 of the U.S., is horribly expensive, and makes Geothermal power, in many cases cost prohibitive.
B: In the map on page 8, of the DOE's geothermal assessment, shows that cost effective short-depth drilling sights are fewer and far between.
C: There is real evidence that drilling can mess with the water table, cause pollution, and emit sulfur, CO2, and other trace gasses.
D: Just because there is heat located on your map, doesn't mean there is sufficient water at those locations to harness geothermal energy.
E: Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS), which must be used in order to generate power in locations that do not have the required water table, causes earthquakes and is potentially dangerous.
F: Lastly, and finely, despite your crazed fear and doom ignorant rantings about how Big (whatever dumb idea you have) is stopping Geothermal power, it flat out is not true. They have even opened up a Geothermal energy plant UNDER New York city buildings. You can stop with the tin foil covered shack, "Big Blaw Blaw" is out to get us!, conspiracy routine. We don't buy it.
No one is against Geothermal power. I fully support Geothermal power, when and where, it makes good sense to do it. I am against EGS because I think it's bad idea to mess with the tectonic mantle of the Earth. That seems like a error in progress. We don't know what effect forcing water down on a continental plate, may cause.
That said, I'll all for using the existing heat sources that are readily available. However, it's complete insanity to think Geothermal power is going to completely take over our energy needs. We are not Iceland. They do not even use a small fraction of our power needs, nor do we have close to the geothermal potential they do. Time to wake up.
