04-19-2015, 08:15 AM
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Originally posted by RJHampton
What difference is it how deep the geothermal resources are located or how deep the injection wells are? PGV injects the used brine back to where it ensures the continued viability of the resource. That's the right thing to do.
Why is hitting magma while drilling even an issue with you? It isn't
like it going to come flying up the well and spurting all over. In fact, they had issues because it froze (turned into rock essentially). by finding that chamber, they did the scientists a nice favor as it helps them to map out the underlying structure.
Rob is correct. You seem to try and make mountains out of thin air and I am not sure what purpose you have in doing so.
Was it in PGV/Ormat's permit to drill that deep (8,297 ft.)? Was it in their permit to tap the magma? They have a permit to tap energy from the resource i.e. hot rocks. Are hot rocks the same as magma? Could source be considered the same as resource? Do you know if drilling into the magma chamber in October of 2005 was intentional, accidental or serendipitous? I cannot find where there was any governmental reporting on this incident. I cannot even find the exact date.
After hitting a magma chamber while drilling Injection well KS-13 Ormat applied to change the permit from an injection well to a production well without disclosing on the permit that there was magma at the bottom 20 meters of the well. Why did Oramt fail to report the incident and keep it secret for three years?
Remember leilanidude, this was the first time in human history that anyone had ever drilled into a magma chamber. Most people would have run for their lives instead Ormat drilled and re-drilled. How do you know if it was safe if it had never been done before?
It was the first time that humans have ever gotten their hands on in situ magma or magma in its natural state. Did that substance belong to Ormat? They took it off the drill and sent chucks of it off island to research facilities like Sandia labs, Lawrence Livermore, John Hopkins etc. while we were kept in the dark.
To the best of my knowledge Ormat is an energy company not a scientific research facility.
I am making mountains out of molehills and they have built a geothermal plant on top of a baby volcano.
Yep, fear-mongering.
Though, I do love that you are the first to point out that Ormat isn't a scientific research facility. Are you a scientist specializing in volcano's perhaps?
You seem to come to a lot of conclusions and assumptions without any evidence, I hope you at least have something to back all this nonsense?
Did you have permits or permission when you interrupted a public meeting with your nonsense?
For someone who likes to hold everyone else accountable for "words", "rules" and "permits", you do seem to ignore a lot of them yourself. I am sure there is a term that describes people who think the rules apply to everyone but themselves.