Comments on: A quiet breakthrough in geothermal power tech

By: guest

guest — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:44:03 +0000

Snow falling from trees makes heavy “thumps” on the ground

By: Rahul

Rahul — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:57:09 +0000

Can it be possible by using Geothermal power we will extract heat & by commercialising it we may put our EARTH at risk by loss of its Magnetism. As per my knowledge our Magnetism is due to molten core & by extracting heat we increase the speed of cooling EARTH core.

By: David Morgan

David Morgan — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:15:13 +0000

…you’re our only hope!”

By: David Morgan

David Morgan — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:10:29 +0000

Congratulations on sticking to the dream that our energy future is right under our feet. Here on the Oregon Coast the Wall Street Banksters are again sniffing out huge federal subsidies they see coming for wave energy devices that will never pencil out. And they’ve got powerful political interests wrapped around their little fingers, fingers that are tying up more and more fishing grounds off the Oregon Coast that are currently producing a $300 million dollar a year fishing industry. It is deeply threatened by these dark forces.

AltaRock, you hold the Oregon Coast in your hands…and everywhere else where the hollow promise of wind and waves hold sway based on monumental greed and wrong headed attitudes about green energy. Keep going!! Tell us how we can help with streamlining permits, showing support. It’s kinda like that line out of Star Wars….”Obe Wan AltaRock, you’re out only hope!”

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:42:45 +0000

Avalanches, possibly.

By: newberrygeothermal

newberrygeothermal — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:53:44 +0000

Thanks for your interest in our project.

You are right, “seismic activity” isn’t the right term – a more accurate term would be seismic energy or ground motion. Passing trains and snow falling off of overloaded tree branches impart energy to the earth’s surface which travels away from the train or impact as seismic waves. The passage of these waves can be detected as ground motion by sensitive seismometers.

What was meant above is that the ground motion at the seismometers AltaRock installed was greater due to trains and snow falling than it was due to EGS related microearthquakes.

Trenton Cladouhos
AltaRock Energy

By: Geophysicist Extraordinaire

Geophysicist Extraordinaire — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:00:34 +0000

This is very admirable work. Why doesn’t Al Gore blog or tweet more good news about the heroic attempts being made by AltaRock to really make a difference in the world? Is it because Al wouldn’t stand to make millions if, say, AltaRock was successful and this reduced Al’s opportunity to take profits on carbon trading? Has anyone noticed that the Chicago Climate Exchange is no longer? Anyway, the focus should most definitely be on companies like AltaRock and great people like Ms. Susan Petty and AltaRock’s investors taking the risk, not Al Gore’s pet projects like Current TV or having his friends like Bill Clinton fly into North Korea on a gas guzzling carbon emitting private jet to rescue the women who were working for Current TV and teasing the North Koreans on the Chinese border just to get better ratings for the not-very-often-watched Current TV. If AltaRock and Susan Petty are able to make a scalable geothermal energy breakthrough that changes the world then the Norwegians darned better well give Ms. Petty a Nobel Prize because she will really be deserving of one!

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:16:30 +0000

Katie,

How does snow falling generate seismic activity?

By: kurtisfriesen

kurtisfriesen — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:38:18 +0000

Maybe they should start building disaster recovery data centers on geothermal hotspots.