🚀 go-pugleaf

Timberwoof wrote:
> In article <pan.2007.01.01.07.09.08.180040@comcast.net>,
>  Phil Hays <spampostmaster@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > Timberwoof wrote:
> >
> > >  "Addinall" <addinall@addinall.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Of course if you pump a load of water down a hole that is being heated
> > >> by a load of radioactive rock, some of that radioactive material will
> > >> be dissolved or kept in supension in the water, and it's going to come
> > >> up to the surface.
> > >
> > > Oh. I did not know that lava coming out of volcanoes is radioactive. I'm
> > > sure that very few people know this. I think that even geologists don't
> > > know this.
> >
> > Almost everything is radioactive, at least to some extent. I strongly
> > suspect that most geologists know this. The air is radioactive because of
> > C14. Our bodies are radioactive due to K40 and others. It is mostly a
> > matter of degree of how radioactive things are. Most rocks are slightly
> > radioactive. Some rocks are quite radioactive. A few rocks are very very
> > radioactive.
>
> I know this.

Of course you do darling, you're an elf, and
elves know these things magically!

>
> > I don't know how radioactive the rock where the geothermal is being
> > proposed is. It would be foolish not to find out what sort of radiation
> > release would be generated before significant development of the
> > geothermal field. However, chemical risks are probably higher: arsenic,
> > lead, etc.
>
> Is lava typically more radioactive than, say, rocks found at some
> roadcut?

Which lava and which road cut would be a good
start to a question.

>
> Consider the context: someone explained to Addinall that the Earth's
> interior is heated by radioactive decay.

No, Addinall deduced that from earlier works of others about 35 years
ago.
But do go on...

> Addinall seems to have deduced
> that volcanoes and geothermal hot spots are typically near deposits of
> radioactive materials. (Boy, that would make mining the stuff even less
> fun.)

You have never worked in the geology business have you son?
What is the most used assay at the moment for finding
potential granite hot-spots?  I can give you a hint, it has nothing to
do with Dragons.....

Mark Addinall.

>
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