Fund Deep Geothermal Energy Production

Fund Deep Geothermal Energy Production

Started
January 28, 2010
Petition to
US House of Representatives - California-08 Paul Cook and 5 others
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This petition had 111 supporters

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Started by Vane Lashua

http://thnktnk.net/drill.html

Stop drilling for oil and gas. Now. Stop pumping dollars overseas. Stop pumping pollutants into the atmosphere. Stop pumping chemicals and mine waste into scarce water resources.

Drill for energy and generate electricity anywhere there are 40 clear acres. Deep Geothermal taps a carbon-free energy source that's less than 10 miles from everywhere on Earth. Deep Geothermal can be exploited using existing and redeployed construction and engineering resources owned by "big oil". Its most exotic feature is the configuration of electric generation plants situated over wells bored by American companies already in business.

Want JOBS? Deep Geothermal will put thousands of American engineers and construction resources right to work and each generating station can be fully productive in months. Stop subsidizing big oil! Subsidize big ENERGY.

And the best feature of all: the net cost per kilowatt hour generated of Deep Geothermal is much lower than nuclear, coal, oil, gas, solar or wind because its "footprint" is smaller, its fuel mining and transport costs are nil, its pollution is zero, and it puts conventional tools and materials to work that have been around for a hundred years and will be around for another. Besides that, you can put a solar farm right on top -- if you want to risk it. Unfortunately the wildly fluctuating prices for oil and gas will not be around for media and commodities traders to manipulate. Pity poor Wall Street.

 

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