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Helium Leads to Geothermal Energy Resources
Roland Piquepaille writes "When we think about alternative sources of energy, we often forget the potential of geothermal energy resources. In fact, it has been estimated that accessible geothermal energy in the U.S. represents 90 quadrillion kilowatt-hours or 3,000 times the country's total annual energy consumption. So far, it has been difficult and expensive to locate good sources of geothermal energy. But now, two U.S. researchers have found a new method which doesn't require drilling. They are using the ratio of helium isotopes in surface waters to point to the best sources of geothermal energy."
I keep seeing this tag. Why? Most of the articles so tagged seem better-than-average for Slashdot, honestly.
Largest by what metric? The Geysers outside San Fransisco puts out 750 MW(e).
Doesn't concern me a bit. Religious drones need it ground into their foreheads in letters of indelible ink until even the most fearful, gullible, and just plain stupid among them get it: Science works, religion does not. It's time to face it. Time to leave the ghost stories behind. Time to show the "religious leaders" for what they are, fairy story artists with palm leaves and dowsing rods and some really poorly written old fictions and no more than that. Time to point at every world leader - American, Iranian, etc. - who uses "gawd" as an excuse and call bullshit in no uncertain terms. Time to point at the Muslims who want to kill that lady teacher for naming the teddy bear "Mohammed" and call them ignorant savages, because that's just what they are. Time to point at the pope, blathering along, blaming the world's ills on atheists, and call him the ignorant savage he is.
As for slashdot moderation, you see, the thing about that is - it doesn't work. Because there is no accountability, because bad moderation is never reversed, because reading at anything other than -1 causes the loss of many great posts, no serious slashdot user reads at anything but -1; the rest are posers and aren't even seeing the conversation. So I really don't care what the mods do.
Mind you, if they *fixed* the mod system, you'd have a point. But experience has shown that they aren't going to do that. So - you don't.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Seriously? The hottest in history? Have you watched much porn? I mean, I'm all for declaring Ms. Hayes a valuable resource of Montana, certainly more valuable than, say, a politician, but she certainly has some competition in the porn world. How about Asia Carrera - totally smoking hot and a mensa member to boot.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Look, you could work with Hitler or Pol Pot or modern day equivalents of them in areas where you don't conflict if you choose to — the point is, you shouldn't. It isn't all about "getting along." When someone is lying to children (or adults who think like children), it isn't a great idea to go along. Eventually, they'll base real world decisions on the bullshit they've been fed, and then we have trials about evolution, books being banned, stores closing 1/7th of the time, rampant sexual repression, brittle and narrow marriage standards, the loading of tax shares onto the shoulders of others, open homophobia and veiled homophobia AKA "don't ask, don't tell", preachers bilking old ladies out of their savings, the inquisitions, "witches" bing burned, teachers being put to death for naming teddy bears Mohammed, world leaders doing things because "god talks to them", proclamations that hurricane victims "deserved" it because they're sinners, and so on.
Getting along is overrated. Some motherfuckers just need a good stiff punch in the head.
As for being topical, at this point in history, science is the light, and religion is the dark. I choose not to forget the dark while it remains a threat or even just an annoyance. By the way, you are aware it is Sunday, right? Religion is 100% topical here in the USA today. By religious decree.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
That's absolute bullshit. There's scientific research to say that religion works, bozo. A quick google showed this among many others:
There are other studies that show that praying produces similar results, and other studies that show that regular attendance at religious gatherings such as church on Sunday are benificial for peoples wellbeing because they establish order and stability which in moderation are important for mental wellbeing. I couldn't be bothered looking them up, but from memory these things aren't hard to find.
Religion of most forms combines routine and meditation and these things are benificial. I'm not particularly religious, but I find your attitude offensive because you appear misconstrue science, which is a method of enquiry, into the worst distortion of a religion - a fanatical and blinkered belief system which is the only truth and must be blindly supported as one would support a football team.
I understand the context of your post, but there to say what you have said as an apparent endorsement of science is an insult to scientific discovery. Most scientific understanding of existence is based on models and these models are just that. Models. There is not necessarily such a thing as an atom, but experiments yield results which support the model called "atom" to a point that is useful. Perhaps, instead of saying god isn't real and insulting religious people, try seeing god as a model. As with the particle model and wave models of light, your model and the various religious models can coexist if you want them too. It seems you are happy to be yet another religious fanatic.
I don't therefore I'm not.