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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051115/sc_ … stralia_dc
...several companies are looking to harness hot rock temperatures of
up to 570 degrees Fahrenheit to unleash green energy.A combination of nature's bounty, government support and
entrepreneurial spirit may well help Australia win the race to
generate electricity for commercial purposes from the rocks, which
some say could produce more than the country's known oil or coal
reserves..."This is the best spot in the world, a geological freak," Geodynamics
managing director Bertus de Graaf told Reuters. "It's really quite
serendipitous, the way the elements -- temperature, tectonics,
insulating rocks -- have come together here"..."Mother Nature has been kind to us. Australia could be the world
leader within the next couple of years given the geological anomalies
present in South Australia," says Peter Reid, chief executive of
another explorer...
--Cindy
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)
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And we're also building a solar chimney somewhere as well. doesnt mean it will be of any real benifit to anyone but the private sector energy producers who are getting government grant money to prove it can be done...
Wait until it becomes a threat to the petroleum industry and all those other friends of government ministers. Then it will be "This is not a priority for the government anymore." Which is the case with Petroleum alternatives such as biodiesil after 2030. Apparently the Aust gov is planning to reintroduce slavery and put the poor to work on treadmills.
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