USGS scientists answer geothermal questions

[leilanidude]

http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2019/0...y-meeting/

USGS scientists answer geothermal questions.

Loving the replies by the scientists.

[Guest]

god thats alot of work to get those awesome replies out when you know the spitish ones asking the questions not evel care the reply.

mahalo for posting

[Rob Tucker]

I wish PGV well and look forward to their restart of operations. Personally I hope they can expand production in the future.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

I read an article today which discussed the human fear of science, and the archetype of the Mad Scientist. When humans don't understand how something works, they fear it. That's exactly what has happened with PGV all these years. People treat the plant as if it's run by Mad Scientists, so out of control they're even capable of causing the eruption of a volcano*, an eruption that could have destroyed their power plant. I would think that's probably not in their own best interest in the long run, but people seem to accuse them of anything and everything.

Theatrical as it is, the cliché of the mad scientist—a wild-haired, goggle-eyed maniac pacing around a laboratory, operating buzzing contraptions with the help of a hunchbacked assistant—reveals something important about our relationship to knowledge. At least since Aeschylus, science and technology have been bound to madness and criminality: when Prometheus rebels against Zeus, steals the “fire that makes all skills attainable” from the gods, and gives it to the humans—together with tools, technical and scientific knowledge, language, and reason itself—he “is mentally straying, robbed of [his] wits, like a bad doctor who has fallen sick.”

From Prometheus to Dr. Faustus, Dr. Jekyll, Dr. Moreau... mad scientists in literature have one thing common: they all challenge some sort of law. In one way or another, they “practice more than heavenly power permits,” as the chorus in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faust says in its final admonition. Not only do they break the rules of established paradigms... — but more important, they defy the very laws of nature.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018...scientist/

Best wishes to the scientists, engineers, and workers at PGV for restarting the facility. For their dedication and perseverance in the face of adversity, both natural and human.

* in the OP link

[Guest]

they defy the very laws of nature...

Fits Climate Scientologists to a t.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Climate Scientologists to a t.

Even a three watt bulb may provide enough light so the point is again illuminated.

[TomK]

Personally, I'm glad that the local HVO and climate scientists are dealing with the whack jobs. For decades they bothered astronomers but now they have other things to make up and means we have more time to do real science - the limited resources we have to deal with these people are now shared with other organizations.

Over the years, we've received so many surreal phone calls and letters. Highlights include someone sending me a letter with a star chart attached in which he had found a way to join up some stars to create the outline of a space shuttle. He used this to explain aliens are watching us. Then there was the Big Island mayor candidate who called me at the summit to tell me all the stars would be turning into angels and arriving on Earth soon. Other episodes include exploding trees and Venus being a UFO. Aircraft taking off from Hilo airport and being captured on the MKO webcams is a common cause of spurious UFO claims.

Steiner is just another example of these people. If you read the Trib you'll know she's a regular contributor. Thank you, HVO, for dealing with her so well. It won't stop her though.

[MarkP]

"A segment of the Puna population is opposed to the industry in their backyard, saying the facility poses a hazard due to its close proximity to residential neighborhoods." They seem to have misspelled "the smoking lunar landscape left by Pele".

Honestly if you are the type to believe in such things, given the whole PGV vs homes deal, how do you overlook that Pele took out the homes and left PGV?

[TomK]

That's part of the conspiracy.

[alaskyn66]

PGV- 0... Pele- 700+ and 2 villages.