SocraticGadfly: Geothermal not a guaranteed alt-energy resource

August 20, 2009

Geothermal not a guaranteed alt-energy resource

The Obama Administration’s push to explore geothermal energy in northern California has fallen behind schedule.

Why?

Earthquake worries, based on what happened at a similar project in Switzerland.

Increasing earthquakes anywhere near the Bay Area is disturbing. Also disturbing is the project’s company Alta California, as it tries to distort and gloss over what happened in Switzerland.

And, beyond that, geothermal spots in general are in seismically sensitive areas!

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