Replies to post #1664 on US Geothermal (HTM)

[terry hallinan]

I have read where Texas is thinking geothermal...data from preexisting wells, etc...

Ormat years ago leased Texas wells with a view to using them for geothermal power. Nothing that I know of was ever done.

A professor I corresponded with in the Dakotas claimed the Texas oil wells would generate all the electric power that Alaska used then currently but the Dakota wells did not have the same amount and quality of hot water.

Some of these projects lay idle for years and decades, even half a century or more.

The Larderello field in Italy where electricity was first generated over a century ago has continued to generate power from that time with a lapse after bombing in WWII. It is only now getting serious attention.

Plush, OR, isn't but the Crump Geyser just down the road a mile inside a corral and livestock loading dock really was:

http://www.alternative-earth.com/i/photos/crump/image002.jpg

The geyser burst through a plug at an abandoned drill site by B. C. McCabe, the geothermal power pioneer. The "kids" up to maybe 50 years old at the bar/grocery store/post office/gas station mostly didn't know there ever was a geyser or had at most a hazy recollection when we went through.

Today the area is finally getting serious attention and development is underway.

Seems like geothermal power development operates in geologic time in the U.S.

Best, Terry