[hillsidedigger]

Avery large volume of electricity could relatively easily be produced with geo-thermal tapping.

Almost anywhere a hole drilled down into the ground only a mile or 3 deep will reach temperatures well above the boiling point of water. Such could be harnessed on a large scale so alleviating the need to ever burn any more coal, oil or natural gas.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hillsidedigger', 'S')uch could be harnessed on a large scale so alleviating the need to ever burn any more coal, oil or natural gas.

[dolanbaker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hillsidedigger', 'S')uch could be harnessed on a large scale so alleviating the need to ever burn any more coal, oil or natural gas.

[hillsidedigger]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hillsidedigger', 'S')uch could be harnessed on a large scale so alleviating the need to ever burn any more coal, oil or natural gas.

[hillsidedigger]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dolanbaker', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hillsidedigger', 'S')uch could be harnessed on a large scale so alleviating the need to ever burn any more coal, oil or natural gas.

[dolanbaker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'F')rankly, what can we do? The economy is dependent on waste and built in obsolescence. Entire industries are critically dependent on the continuous sale of short life wasteful trivia.

[dolanbaker]

Another problem with geo is that they can trigger earthquakes.

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2 ... arthquakes
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')n December 8, 2006, Markus Häring caused some 30 earthquakes -- the largest registering 3.4 on the Richter scale -- in Basel, Switzerland. Häring is not a supervillain. He's a geologist, and he had nothing but good intentions when he injected high-pressure water into rocks three miles below the surface, attempting to generate electricity through a process called enhanced geothermal. But he produced earthquakes instead, and when seismic analysis confirmed that the quakes were centered near the drilling site, city officials charged him with $9 million worth of damage to buildings.

[Daniel_Plainview]

Robert L. Hirsch's latest summation can be found @ Energy Bulletin: Commentary: Restrictions on world oil production

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'G')eology is the ultimate restriction. Oil is a finite resource. We will never produce more oil than nature provided over millions of years. All that's there is called the oil resource, but we can only produce what is called the "reserves," which is a fraction of the resource. Why? Because the geology associated with each oil deposit sets a practical limit on ultimate production. In a few cases, reserves can total up to half of a local resource. In others, reserves can amount to no more than a few percent of the resource. Typically, reserves are around 30% of the resource. If you think we should be able to do better than 30% on average, take some time to look at some oil reservoirs rock cores.

The complexity is often mind boggling. What's this all boil down to? Based on geology, many analysts have forecast the onset of the decline of world oil production in the next 2-5 years. Legitimate national interests, mismanagement, and political upheaval can only hasten that onset. To explain these and other energy issues we wrote the book entitled "The Impending World Energy Mess." Oil production is a very complicated activity. What happens in oil will impact all of us, so it's worth some study.