In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:05:56 -0500:
Hi,
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>Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
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>>Where "hot rocks" are available as a source of geothermal power, and these are
>>situated near the coast, salt water could be used as the water source. This
>>would produce steam to dr
Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
Where "hot rocks" are available as a source of geothermal power, and these are
situated near the coast, salt water could be used as the water source. This
would produce steam to drive turbines . . .
Salt water will wreck a turbine. I doubt you can make one that would
My mind is stimulated by the idea. There are a lot of
minerals in the underground rocks. Sea salt and
underground salts could be continuously or periodically
carried to the the surface dissolved and suspended in
superheated water which would be evaporated on the surface
leaving the salts. A pi
Hi,
Where "hot rocks" are available as a source of geothermal power, and these are
situated near the coast, salt water could be used as the water source. This
would produce steam to drive turbines, which could then also be condensed into
fresh water. In short rather than be an additional burden on
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