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Google Funding the Next Big One?

Posted by samzenpus on from the mole-men-approved dept.

wdavies writes "According to this New York Times article, Google is funding a controversial deep drill geothermal project north of San Francisco. Apparently the company, AltaRock, omitted to disclose that the same deep drilling caused a major quake in Basel, Switzerland when it was last used. Given the notorious geological instability of the Northern Californian coast, this strikes me as kind of dumb — and given the known likelihood of this technique producing earthquakes, somewhat EVIL."

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  1. Re:Unfair Blame to Both Google And AltaRock by wordsnyc · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ayn? Is that you? Alan said you'd come back to save us.

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  2. Re:Unfair Blame to Both Google And AltaRock by jo42 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    applied for roughly 20 patents on ways to improve the method

    Patents for drilling a hole in the ground? :facepalm: