Replies to post #3904 on Bluefire Renewables, Inc. (fka BFRE)

[terry hallinan]

I think geothermal power could have a strong future, if it can be secured/harnessed properly, and is shown to flow for many years/decades from one source.

Is a century plus of undiminished power generation from the initial Larderello field in Italy long enough for you? :-)

There was a two or three year interruption during WWII when it was bombed but maybe that lapse is forgivable. :-)

Geothermal brines are currently being "mined" for minerals on a pilot scale and obviously direct use of the heat has a separate life though both are intertwined contrary to current nonsensical doctrine.

I grew up in an area where homes, a school and a hospital were heated by geothermal as early as the 19th Century. Roads and sidewalks were de-iced and a host of applications have multiplied over the decades in Klamath Falls, OR. And now they are generating power that was once regarded as impossible from such low-temperature resources.

Scratch the EGS nonsense from engineers at MIT [renaming "hot dry rock" power that has a record of failure matched only by fusion power accomplishes nothing spiking hype and dreams]. It can help to talk to people that actually know something about geothermal, including engineers. Ivory tower types are usually best kept in their high rise prisons until they demonstrate they know a bit of what they speak.

I have no argument at all with your conjecture that biomass has more utility than geothermal. I insist on it.

Thank you.

Terry