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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 The+Grand+Falloon · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Also, Clear Lake is pretty shitty. They would be hard pressed to fuck it up any worse than it is. Seriously, the only time that lake is ok to swim in is in the middle of the night (so you can't see the water) when you're drunk off your ass (to make your body a hostile environment to all the things that are going to try to grow inside you). And the locals, man, don't get me started.