Geothermal energy a booming business

[lovuian]

PROVO, Utah - Within six months of discovering a massive geothermal field, a small Utah company had erected and fired up a power plant — just one example of the speed with which companies are capitalizing on state mandates for alternative energy.

Anticipation of new energy policies has sparked a rush on land leases as companies like Raser Technologies Inc., based in Provo, lock up property that hold geothermal fields and potentially huge profits.

Raser's find, about 155 miles southwest of Provo, could eventually power 200,000 homes.
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Who needs Nuclear when you have Geothermal

[Idealism]

1. There aren't enough geothermal areas

that can be harnessed in the US for it to power many more than their current prediction. Some (like Yellowstone) are reserve areas that you can't build power plants on.

[Hanse]

2. That's why you drill.

Obviously a major investment.

But it'd have major payoffs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Geothermal_System#MIT_Report

[Idealism]

3. That could be a dicey thing

If you were to drill deeper into the geothermal basin, so to speak, you could alter surface geothermal features. If you cause geyers, hot springs, paint pots, etc to not function anymore at a National Park due to your drilling, you will have lawsuits up the ass from Environmental groups and the government most likely.

[cliffordu]

4. Yea, but I could make POPCORN!!!!

:popcorn:

Want some??

[Idealism]

5. No lie, I was fiending for some popcorn the other day

But not like the kind you buy in grocery stores. I wanted that horrendously un-healthy, buttered-up concoction you get only at movie theaters. Yum.

[cliffordu]

7. The kind with three huge pumps of real butter......about a stick of butter per tub....

yummy.

[conscious evolution]

6. And I'll sell

these
http://www.worldofstock.com/closeups/PWO4077.php