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Might "Drill baby drill!" turn out to be a green energy plan after all?

Asked by ETpro (34605points) October 26th, 2011

A new geothermal map of the USA shows that using Enhanced Geothermal Systems technology the US could generate 2.98 billin Megawatts of energy. That’s 10 times the installed capacity of dirty coal in the US. Isn’t it time for some advertising on TV pushing this existing technology, instead of the fantasy of “Clean Coal” technology which doesn’t yet exist?

So who says that green technology can’t possibly ever meet our needs for energy in the conceivable future. Imagine if we had “saved” the money invested in this research to just make shareholders even richer.

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