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I watched a show on TV last night about geothermal power production. I never realized that Reno gets a lot of it's electricity from thermal power plants. Also they showed where some guy after World War 11 bought a big warehouse full of left over steam turbines from the Navy and stored them and many of them are now being used in a big power plant there. They have done three studies that i know of up in Lassen Park where the steam vents out of the ground all the time and would never build a power plant there for some reason. I believe in the show they said they had to drill from 200' to 1,000' to get the steam, but in Lassen they shouldn't have to drill hardly any in some places. If they areas serious about this as they claim, why haven't they did anything about building more of the geothermal plants. Look at a map of the Pacific Rim and it will show the whole thing has a lot of heat and pressure that could be tapped into. Also they have now developed better turbines than the old ones and they are more efficient and any waste product is just water as they showed where they let the waste water flow out in the big power plant near Reno. Nuclear would be a good way to go if they did it right and quit cutting corners to make money, but that won't happen in this state unless all of the power happy people suddenly don't have electricity.
Ron
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