[HN Gopher] Geothermal Power in the North Bay
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       Geothermal Power in the North Bay
        
       Author : rbanffy
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2024-10-10 20:04 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blog.jonudell.net)
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       | staplung wrote:
       | The joke about The Geysers is that it's California's "Brown
       | Energy" because of the use of sewage for the steam generation.
        
       | mprime1 wrote:
       | I had a fascinating conversation with someone that has been
       | working on this system for the last 20 or so years.
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       | Water treatment is powered by the geyser and in turn the leftover
       | brown water feeds the geyser.
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       | Pretty neat (for sewage)!
        
       | Lammy wrote:
       | > That daily recharge is implicated in the region's frequent
       | small earthquakes. (But nobody seems too worried about that, and
       | maybe it's a good thing? Many small better than one big?)
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       | See also: the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes whose epicenter was the
       | Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake geothermal plant:
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Ridgecrest_earthquakes
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       | https://news.usni.org/2019/07/09/california-earthquakes-leav...
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       | https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=35.766&mlon=-117.605&zoo...
       | (Epicenter)
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Air_Weapons_Station_Chin...
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       | https://cosoenergy.com/
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       | https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/plant/10874/?...
        
         | jhayward wrote:
         | I've never heard any seismologist holding a responsible office
         | blaming the Ridgecrest quake on any man-made cause. The links
         | posted do not support that claim either.
         | 
         | Do you have any information which directly supports this?
        
       | Mistletoe wrote:
       | Maybe this is a dumb question but is pumping sewage effluent into
       | it as the water source a great idea?
        
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