West Virginia Is Geothermically Active 239
sciencehabit writes "Researchers have uncovered the largest geothermal hot spot in the eastern United States. According to a unique collaboration between Google and academic geologists, West Virginia sits atop several hot patches of Earth, some as warm as 200C and as shallow as 5 kilometers. If engineers are able to tap the heat, the state could become a producer of green energy for the region."
Are they sure? (Score:3, Funny)
Everyone will be happy (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Amazing how short-sighted dems and pols are (Score:5, Funny)
Dems run around throwing money at Wind (meh) and Solar PV (a waste of money).
This is what I always admire about the political climate in the US. There is always someone willing to come up with a well-considered, polite, nuanced, and rational treatise of the pro's and con's of a problem, even for a complicated problem such as alternative energy. No wonder that the US is universally considered the best-functioning democracy in the world.
Re:Where is Senator Byrd? (Score:5, Funny)
...then we could have had the Robert Byrd Hot Air Energy Generation Facility, and his legacy would live on!
Robert Byrd left us his namesake Hot Air Energy Generation Facility. It's called the United States Senate.
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another benefit of the obama presidency (Score:4, Funny)
They should check other states. Maybe they too have former state senators/KKK members spinning in their graves at the idea of a black US president?
Either that, or Satan finally came to collect his due.
Re:Warm River Cave (Score:5, Funny)
What part of the summary, never mind the article, suggests that simply finding geothermal activity was the research goal here? I mean, here's your first sentence:
Researchers have uncovered the largest geothermal hot spot in the eastern United States.
Did you seriously stop after reading title? And then criticise the researchers for not noticing things?
Take Me Home, Lava Flows (Score:5, Funny)
Near Inferno, West Virginia
Fiery Mountains, pyroclastic rivers
Life is doomed there, 'midst the blackened trees
See the mighty mountains tremb'lin like leaves
Lava flows, take me home
To the place that erupts
West Virginia, baleful mama
Take me home, Lava flows.
Gotta Love the URL (Score:4, Funny)
WV has a bad reputation, and story URLs like that are not going to help
Re:Warm River Cave (Score:3, Funny)
Did you seriously stop after reading title? And then criticise the researchers for not noticing things?
You're both missing the point. The point is that with a bit of luck the earth could swallow WV!
WVU sofa fires... (Score:4, Funny)
Here we were, blaming undergrads for those couches pulled off of porches and set ablaze after WVU football games... and all along, it was just spontaneous combustion as hot spots poked through the surface...!
West Virginia Already Has the Needed Technology (Score:3, Funny)
hotttt (Score:1, Funny)