Ok, you have a coal fire burning underground for some 40 years producing temperatures upward of 1500 Fahrenheit. What do you do?
A) Spend 600 million dollars to excavate down to the fire and try to put it out with millions of gallons of water.
B) Drill wells and extract the enormous energy being generated to at least partially power Pennsylvania and perhaps even neighboring states for a decade or more.
What do you do...what do you do?
A) Spend 600 million dollars to excavate down to the fire and try to put it out with millions of gallons of water.
B) Drill wells and extract the enormous energy being generated to at least partially power Pennsylvania and perhaps even neighboring states for a decade or more.
What do you do...what do you do?
"they found a million bureaucratic excuses"
Hmph! Must have been an off day for the bureaucrats.
I have to chuckle at the "concern" about emissions, smoke, contaminates, etc. Yet the mayor is in his eighties and doing fine, except for his property value being low but he was just ahead of the rest of the country by a few decades. At least his house is paid off. Maybe all of that stuff is prolonging his life?
What they have there is a perfect make-shift work project to busy the unemployed. And why hasn't someone harnessed the heat from that thing? There must be a way.
Posted by: Brutus | 09/06/2009 at 07:42 AM