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Iceland To Drill Hole Into Volcano
G3ckoG33k writes "BBC reports that Iceland will drill a hole into a volcano so it can tap heat from it, which eventually is hoped to produce commercially available energy. From the article: "Twenty years ago, geologist Gudmundur Omar Friedleifsson had a surprise when he lowered a thermometer down a borehole. 'We melted the thermometer,' he recalls. 'It was set for 380C; but it just melted.'". Excuse me, Gudmundur, but how could that ever have been a 'surprise'..."
Don't they realize that Volcanic Energy has directly caused more deaths than Nuclear Energy?
When will people learn that there is no safe form of energy?!
The volcano gods are gonna be so angered when they find out Iceland is mooching the heat. If I know my mythology, nothing (and I mean nothing) pisses a god off like free stuff for humans. We should just rename Iceland to New Pompeii right now.
My work here is dung.
If you ever drop your car keys in lava, forget it man, they're gone.
24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not!
Do they not watch Doctor Who in Iceland?
It'll be green skinned monsters and parallel universes before you know it!
It was a surprise because his hypothesis was that they would find thetans living there.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
Here's a transcript from the experiment:
Leela: OW! Fire hot!
Farnsworth: The professy will help. AAAH! Fire indeed hot.
He should have known better than to try to take a volcano god's temperature rectally.
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Oh, yes, they /say/ that it's for an energy source.
I have a feeling they just want to create an evil lair.
Arrrrrrr
Ok so how long before the volcano erupts and utterly destroys a multi million dollar power plant built on its side with earthquake action/lava flow/pyroclastic flow? Even if this were an inactive volcano, those things can randomly become active, spelling doom for the poor saps who would be staffing the power plant (not to mention the millions of dollars down the drain when your spiffy new power plant goes up in smoke, literally). This is your power plant *shows picture of power plant* This is your power plant on a volcano *shows picture of puff of smoke* Questions?
Chums up, let's do this!
Nation to drill a hole in a volcano. Lava discovered. News at eleven!
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In other news, scientists in New Zealand were surprised to discover that a moisture probe the had developed capable of measuring humidity from 0-90% malfunctioned after being lowered into a mysterious salty substance found at the edge of the island.
Due to the malfunctioning instrument, scientists are still unsure about what this salty liquid mixture could be.
volunteered to lead the team for personal reasons.
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Feel free to mod this off-topic, but... can't we *please* try to get the names right? The man's called Guðmundur Ómar Friðleifsson, not Gudmundur Omar Friedleifsson. (I've written about this before, too.)
...OK, I give up, I can't say that last line without laughing. But jokes aside, it still would be nice if the editors actually took the 30 seconds it takes to, y'know, *edit* a story.
Yeah, I know, the summary's just copied from the BBC article, and the BBC makes the same mistake (and even calls him "Friedleifsson" instead of "Fridleifsson"), but shouldn't Slashdot try to maintain a higher standard of quality than the BBC?
quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.
As is clearly shown here... all who dare to defy Xenu shall be subsumed by a wave of his volcanic wrath.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu
Tom Cruise respects the power of Xenu.
John Travolta respects the power of Xenu.
Sonny Bono respects the power of Xenu.
http://www.adherents.com/largecom/fam_scientologi
Björk also shall join this venerated list....
It is only a matter of time.
The term "supercritical nuclear power" scares me.
What about Krakatoa? What about Pompeii?! What about Asian Tsunami? History has shown us the terrible dangers of geothermal energy! Geology has killed far more people than even the satanic nuclear power!
How do we know that careless drilling into the molten subsurface of the Earth will not cause Iceland to explode in a fiery, flaming, orgy of death that will make Krakatoa look like a birthday candle? How do we know that it won't trigger some subsurface earthquake, and create a tsunami that will destroy the shoreline cities of North America and Europe?
This is the same kind of careless arogance that cause disasters like Chernobyl to happen! 3-Mile Island should be a warning to us all! Please, think of the children, and stop this madness before it is too late! I am going to write a letter to the UN, the EU, and to Greenpeace, and tell them that this kind of reckless endangerment of the enviorment and or people should be banned, worldwide! There can be no compromise! There can be no middle ground! This kind of geo-thermal-terrorism must be stopped!
I can imagine the poor guy trying to explain that to his wife.
"Yeah Honey, I was just standing there, and some weird shriveled old bald guy bit it off my hand, and then he fell into a lava pit......I know it sounds weird. Why was I by the lava pit anyway?.....No, there were no women around there......Well yeah I had been drinking and eating some Elven bread and liquor...The broach?....That was just a present... Well she's the Elf Queen.....Well no, She's not married.....Yes, she gave me the cloak too.... What do you mean I have to sleep outside tonight?"
..........FULL STOP.
'It was set for 380C; but it just melted.'
;^)
I guess he should have bought the thermometer that goes to '11'.....
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088258/