01-21-2015, 05:53 AM
Originally posted by pahoated
Iceland has one site that isn't closed cycle, it is open cycle. That brine water is not injected back in the ground and is allowed to fill pools, like this one:
http://www.trendy4cast.com/wp-content/up...land-2.jpg
The geothermal plant is in the background and the resort is a result of this brine water pool. This same water is what Petricci and crew are crying hysterically is toxic poison being released on the face of the Earth. Nowhere else on this planet is there this delusion. That brine is toxic, if you drink it. It has high levels of arsenic, sulfur, other chemicals that are dangerous if you drink it in large quantities. People don't go to health spas to drink the bathing mineral water.
Given that you've been very vocal on this topic for many years, perhaps you should have the facts straight by now. The water provided by the Svartsengi geothermal station to the Blue Lagoon spa lacks heavy metals, is cycled through the spa every 40 hours, and is a mix of an unique geothermal brine with sea water and is unlike any other geothermal fluid.
http://www.bluelagoon.com/files/research...l-ecol.pdf
"Although geothermal brines are used in several places for energy production, they are usually of much higher temperature and/or salinity and often contain high concentrations of toxic compounds like heavy metals. In those cases where cooling ponds are formed they are usually saturated with salt and are therefore totally different from the Blue Lagoon.
Although many hot springs are saturated with silica. they are much lower in salt and the amount of precipitate formed is much less than in the Blue Lagoon. It therefore appears that this temperature and salinity range. the short retention time, and especially the high silica precipitation, form a unique combination which seems to be found nowhere else."
This is a well in Iceland. That is all there is to it, just a casing pipe coming out of the ground, about 8-inches diameter. Iceland is more progressive, so they have put containment domes around the well head pipe, and there is a vent there. That is just water vapor, not smoke.
This well is at Hellisheidi ~15 miles from Reykjavik and is emitting not just water vapor.
http://www.geographical.co.uk/nature/ene...ted-debate
"A recent study linked Hellisheidi’s H2S emissions with the increased incidence of asthma among the residents of greater Reykjavik, and strict new regulations established by the Icelandic government in 2010, have forced the geothermal industry to slash H2S emissions from its plants or face closure."
Iceland has one site that isn't closed cycle, it is open cycle. That brine water is not injected back in the ground and is allowed to fill pools, like this one:
http://www.trendy4cast.com/wp-content/up...land-2.jpg
The geothermal plant is in the background and the resort is a result of this brine water pool. This same water is what Petricci and crew are crying hysterically is toxic poison being released on the face of the Earth. Nowhere else on this planet is there this delusion. That brine is toxic, if you drink it. It has high levels of arsenic, sulfur, other chemicals that are dangerous if you drink it in large quantities. People don't go to health spas to drink the bathing mineral water.
Given that you've been very vocal on this topic for many years, perhaps you should have the facts straight by now. The water provided by the Svartsengi geothermal station to the Blue Lagoon spa lacks heavy metals, is cycled through the spa every 40 hours, and is a mix of an unique geothermal brine with sea water and is unlike any other geothermal fluid.
http://www.bluelagoon.com/files/research...l-ecol.pdf
"Although geothermal brines are used in several places for energy production, they are usually of much higher temperature and/or salinity and often contain high concentrations of toxic compounds like heavy metals. In those cases where cooling ponds are formed they are usually saturated with salt and are therefore totally different from the Blue Lagoon.
Although many hot springs are saturated with silica. they are much lower in salt and the amount of precipitate formed is much less than in the Blue Lagoon. It therefore appears that this temperature and salinity range. the short retention time, and especially the high silica precipitation, form a unique combination which seems to be found nowhere else."
This is a well in Iceland. That is all there is to it, just a casing pipe coming out of the ground, about 8-inches diameter. Iceland is more progressive, so they have put containment domes around the well head pipe, and there is a vent there. That is just water vapor, not smoke.
This well is at Hellisheidi ~15 miles from Reykjavik and is emitting not just water vapor.
http://www.geographical.co.uk/nature/ene...ted-debate
"A recent study linked Hellisheidi’s H2S emissions with the increased incidence of asthma among the residents of greater Reykjavik, and strict new regulations established by the Icelandic government in 2010, have forced the geothermal industry to slash H2S emissions from its plants or face closure."