Comments on: Does geothermal energy cause volcanoes?

By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 22:36:27 +0000

Max, thanks for catching that ! I must have been asleep. I quoted this,
http://thinkgeoenergy.com/archives/6056

…but it is obviously wrong, as you note. On further research, the Jakarta Post has it right, at “close to 7 cents a kWh”, $0.0679 per kWh, which makes sense, it is about like wind power.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/04/09/sarulla-geothermal-electricity-price-agreed.html

By: Max

Max — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:57:51 +0000

I think that power price ($6.79) must be MWh.

By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 20:31:57 +0000

In reply to Bob Wallace. Precisely. The oil industry is the richest in the world so these nagging worries only affect renewable energy.

By: Bob Wallace

Bob Wallace — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:38:46 +0000

We have, what, millions of oil wells drilled deep into the Earth. We’ve got lots of coal mines, diamond mines and all sorts of mines that go very deep.

Has any of this activity ever created a volcano? Even when geologists hit magma while drilling in Hawaii did it cause a volcano?

Do some people ever engage their critical thinking abilities?