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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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'd be willing to take that chance. Obama can just print more stimulus money if we need it. plus we would have all of the money earned by selling the new beachfront property.

  3. 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: