Another Casualty of Typhoon Haiyan: Geothermal Power 78
necro81 writes "Little known even in environmental circles is a renewable energy success story: five geothermal power plants on Leyte Island in the Philippines — each of which produces enough power for the entire island — that collectively produce more than 10% of the Philippines' total electrical demand. From boreholes deep underground comes pressurized water heated to 280 Celsius. At the surface it flashes into steam, turning one set of turbines, then cools and contracts to spin a second set of turbines. The low-grade steam is then condensed back into water and reinjected into the bedrock. But Typhoon Haiyan destroyed the cooling towers, snapped transmission towers, and scattered the employees."
Leave it to corporate media (Score:4, Interesting)
To swiftboat almost any anything that Big Industry (in this case, Big Oil) considers a threat/nuisance. WTF do they think would have happened if an aging TEPCO reactor was in the same storm? I wouldn't like to be there and find out. How would a deepwater oil platform have fared?
I'm pretty much sick of what passes for "news" these days. It's all pretty much shameless puff pieces and hit jobs because that's what corporations pay for.
Either way. (Score:2, Interesting)
I don't like coal. Global warming? Meh who gives a fuck.
But living where alot of coal plants are in use... There's this fine fine black soot on everything.
They seem to crank the plants to 200% at night. And in the morning there's soot everywhere.
Whatever it is it even makes it thru high quality air filters and sticks to everything. Water won't wash it off either.
I don't give a fuck about the planet and global warming. Because really. I won't be alive long enough for us to even admit its a problem.
But i kinda do wonder how much of that black gunk is ending up in my lungs... And lungs.. I'm kinda using those.