Tuesday, December 13, 2011

The most untapped source of energy.

Imagine turning your oven on high, usually for most people that’s 500 Degrees Fahrenheit and then letting it get nice and hot, and then grabbing the orange glowing bars with both hands. Now you have an adequate idea of how much heat and energy that is. What you don’t know is that is less than half the temperature that even the mildest magma reaches. Magma temperatures can range anywhere from 1,292 F to 2,192 F. Now think how much energy your oven uses when you turn it up to 500 F. It’s a lot, right? Well, since the temperature of magma can be several times that, it becomes obvious that there is a tremendous amount of energy in magma, which means it can be harnessed to produce an enormous amount of electricity. It’s quite simple. You get material whose melting temperature is greater than 2,192 F degrees and make a circulation pump (For instance, tungsten): Depending on the scale, you pump in a certain amount of water, and then the process is a closed loop system. You set it up and pump the water in; from there the magma will heat it up well past boiling to where the pressure is increased to manipulating the piping and then the steam from there furiously turns generators. After that, the steam will then cool and fall down back only to be heated and reheated indefinitely. It’s a closed-loop system. You’re not using any ground water and you're emissions-free. 20% of the cost of typical geothermal is drilling the well, which involves a lot of risk involving trial and error. Since all that is necessary to begin generating powerful electricity is low viscosity magma (possibly high as well), that is practically everywhere. For conveniences sake, Hawaii might be a good place to start, or the Philippines.  To grasp how much energy and heat is in magma, take a look at this daring video.


Imagine how much raw heat that is. If you took the top 10 ft. or so of this can you imagine how long it would remain incredibly hot!? Apparently, lava can retain it's heat for quite some time. Compare the energy density of 1 square foot of lava to 1 square foot of sunshine. Even on the hottest days recorded (being 134 degrees Fahrenheit in Death Valley, California) sunshine is no match. Contrarily, the heat in 1 square foot of lava is more than ten times that! As we can see, since magma is located everywhere, at the right depths of course, this is a paramount source of untapped energy. Why? It is abundant, it can easily produce HUGE amounts of energy, it would take up little space, and this would be a zero emissions power plant. Additionally, it could provide base load power. This is ex

Just to get an idea of what lava can do to water just watch this flowing into the ocean. It immediately flashes the water into steam and keep in mind it will take time for the ocean to cool this all the way down.


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