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Alaska Looks To Volcanos For Geothermal Energy

Posted by kdawson on from the don't-stamp-so-hard dept.

Iddo Genuth writes "Alaskan state officials have recently announced their intention to begin funding the exploration and surveying of Alaska's largest volcanoes in hopes of utilizing these as a source of geothermal energy. They say this volcano could provide enough energy to power thousands of households, and according to some estimates, Alaska's volcanoes and hot springs could supply up to 25% of the state's energy needs."

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  1. woop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    sex with ducks yo

  2. SlashDot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sometimes I think people on SlashDot are not necessarily the smartest in the world.

  3. Re:Heat + Air = Hot Air? by Ortega-Starfire · · Score: 0, Troll

    Population of Alaska: 670,053 (2006 Census)
    Population Iceland: 301,391 (2007 Estimate, CIA world factbook)

    25% of Alaska population: 167513 and .25 of a person or a retarded kid
    26.5% of Iceland population: 79868 and .615 of a person or a village idiot

    Alaska Wins! USA! USA! USA!

    And yes, our retarded kid in Alaska will beat down Iceland's village idiot any day of the week.

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  4. Re:Heat + Air = Hot Air? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Volcano technology is too expensive and will take too long to implement, so we shouldn't bother with it. France has proved that nuclear technology is the only quick way to get cheap power right now, and no one really gives a crap about what might happen 500-30000 years from now. Three Mile Island and Chernobyl really weren't that bad, and maybe pretty good. We should use the volcanos to dump nuclear waste, but that's it. Alaska needs 5-10 breeder reactors and the energy problems there are solved. If we could just put a little effort into nuclear tech instead of wasting time with bullshit faggy environmentally clean energy, maybe we could all have little breeder reactors in our homes.

  5. Re:Heat + Air = Hot Air? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ba ba blah blah I don't know why I keep reading Slashdot BS ba blah ba and when the sun actually ba blah runs out of energy then ba blah we'll...

    jeeze

  6. Many many holes to be drilled by flyingfsck · · Score: 1, Troll

    The problem with geothermal energy is that you need to drill hundreds of holes and then you end up with enormous quantities of toxic, heavy metal polluted water run-off. Drilling for oil requires orders of magnitude fewer holes and results in less water pollution.

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