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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (96366)	2/3/2008 6:21:48 PM
From: carl a. mehr	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 206334

I am not trying to engineer a correct answer to my question as you seem to say. <<I know you don't think this is an answer to your question, as you are still looking for your imagined city of 7 million.>> I am merely questioning why energy companies are not going "whole hog" over the geothermal sites. If the generation of thermal power was so wonderful, why would Hawaii not be getting all their power from such a plentiful energy source. Right now one island claims only about 20%, and that might even be stretching the truth. California has many sites available for geothermal plants, and we would hear about their development if "it was the greatest thing since sliced bread". <<Chevron has geothermal plants -- locations in Indonesia and the Philippines>> Power demands in third world countries are much less than in the developed world. (I spent a couple of days in the jungle near Manaus, Brazil, and there was only electricity for a two hour TV session in the evening). It is also strange that the companies that have geothermal plants keeps selling them -- flipping them like hot potatoes -- could it be that they are very expensive to operate? ...carlmehr