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Landy wrote:
> "David Moss" <q0320811@mail.connect.usq.edu.au> wrote in message
> news:MPG.2000942a106031ce98a258@news.bigpond.com...
> > In article <en4jub$rl8$1@news-02.connect.com.au>, dontemailme@all.com
> > writes...
> >
> >> So tell me what's wrong with this form of energy as an alternative to
> >> coal?
> >
> > Isn't geothermal just another kind of nuclear energy?
> >
>
> Well yes, but one is nuclear fission and the other is not.

Nope. Both fission.  Exactly the same process the Green
nuts get all pantieless over.  What's more, it's not
contained.

Environmental Pollution in Sindh, Pakistan
By Mrs. Farzana Panhwar
September 2004

[...]

Mass awareness and education program.
Pollution- the contamination of air, water or soil with substance
harmful to life -has been a seemingly inevitable by-product of
industrialisation and urbanisation, should be reduced.
Geothermal power brings thermal pollution of air and surface water,
contamination ground water, increase, hydrogen sulphide and sulphuric
oxide pollutants in the air, create problems in the disposal of salts.
These carefully monitored and their pollutants should be controlled and
checked at an International Standard to bring sustainable activities in
the country.
http://www.eco-web.com/editorial/040924.html

[...]
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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.

It WILL also find it's way into the water table and aquifiers.
Water is the slipperiest molecule in the universe.  It
will get everywhere once pumped into fissured
rock.

This is a big scream for the "NO NUKE" crowd, if something
weally bad hapens, like tewwowists or a WEALLY big earthquake,
you could leak nasty stuff into the WATER TABLE killing
all the chilrun for at least 200,000 years.  So THERE.....!

Sorry to tell you kiddies, injection driven geothermal power generation
does that from day one, week one.

In a country like Australia, devising a scheme to take huge
quantities of fresh water and polluting it to generate electricity
is criminal.  And insane.

On the other hand, a closed fuel cycle reactor, metal cooled,
will sit there and chug along producing not only power,
but nice clean drinking water as well.

Here we go.  A few dozen of these little babies
all around the coast.

http://www.llnl.gov/str/JulAug04/Smith.html

Plug-n-Play Power.

Mark Addinall.


> cheers
> Bill