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Harry Reid Pushes Nevada As "Saudi Arabia of Geothermal Energy"
An anonymous reader writes "Of all the 'mainstream' forms of renewable energy, it seems that geothermal power is always left in the shadows compared to solar and wind power. However, that looks set to change with news that the US Department of Energy will fund geothermal projects in northwestern Nevada and southeast Oregon. With funds from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, the DOE has stated a 'conditional commitment' to provide a partial guarantee for a rumored $98.5 million loan to the Nevada Geothermal Power Company (NGP). According to US Senator Harry Reid, 'Northern Nevada is the Saudi Arabia of geothermal energy.'"
... that kind of kills it for me. Any politician making such proclamations must be taken with a pound of salt. Wasn't Nevada also proclaimed as the dumping ground for nuclear and toxic waste?
is that unlike wind and solar, it's always on. This makes it much more difficult to explain why it won't meet baseline demand.
Lacking <sarcasm> tags,
Of course it is. Since it's your state, Mr. Reid, it couldn't possibly be anywhere else, right?
That's one of the things I always hated about politicians. They always think their state is the best at ::insert arbitrary thing here::. I got news for you, bud: it's America. Hardly anything here is the best. A lot of it is very good, some of it is even awesome, and some things are even legendary in how amazing they are...but I think saying best is generally pushing it.
-American who loves his country, which is why he can be honest about it
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Only if you've never been to Iceland (everything is expensive there except electricity and hot water).
Geothermal isn't really that renewable!
What Turnip Truck did YOU just fall off of?
There are Prostitutes all over Vegas.
Just because it's "illegal" in Clark Co., doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.
Earthquakes in San Fransisco will be the least of your worries. The last eruption of the Yellowstone caldera 640,000 years ago
shot 240 cubic miles of rock and dust into the sky.
Actually when it comes to Geothermal energy production you don't actually need volcanic activity at all. Another method of collecting and converting geothermal energy is the hot dry rocks (HDR) method. The advantage with HDR is that you dont have to install power converters in geologically unstable environs like in iceleand etc thus you can imagine the insurance costs are way lower.
The Burglar Class runs our nation now. See, as one minor example, this excellent narrative of the highly profitable takedown of Bear Sterns and Lehman Bros (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/12697/64824). This means that no measures that actually would diminish the role of money as the prime determiner of national outcomes will be allowed to be passed, or if passed, enforced. It's over. Change will happen only when we crash hard against the wall of reality, after which perhaps some will be able to make something of the fragments. Reality is not of the opinion that money = merit. And as a consequence, we and the other kleptocracies are going down. Changing direct election of senators is only a minor rearrangement of deck chairs. It's nothing more than a shiny object offered to keep attention directed at the delusion.
Saudi Arabia used to be a country, now it has become an adjective.
...then you're going to be mighty shocked at how many crazy people there are.
Oh, believe me - I AM shocked by how many crazy people there are.
Libertarians somehow believe that private businesses should be stronger than governments but weaker than individuals.