03-24-2010, 06:56 PM
This is general paranoia and partly rooted in possible monetary gains.
Iceland has had extremely large-scale geothermal plants for many years with no ill effects of their people.
You should be more concerned with the output of the volcano, both gaseous and lava, than a modern geothermal plant. The old-style geothermal plants would be a different story. They don't return the steam and gas to the earth. They send them into the air, just like the volcano does.
Iceland has had extremely large-scale geothermal plants for many years with no ill effects of their people.
You should be more concerned with the output of the volcano, both gaseous and lava, than a modern geothermal plant. The old-style geothermal plants would be a different story. They don't return the steam and gas to the earth. They send them into the air, just like the volcano does.