Hastily shut down, Mr. Häring’s project was soon forgotten by nearly everyone outside Switzerland. As early as this week, though, an American start-up company, AltaRock Energy, will begin using nearly the same method to drill deep into ground laced with fault lines in an area two hours’ drive north of San Francisco. Full Story »
Posted by Glenn LaBauve
Many of us can remeber when there were proposals to put nuclear reactors in nearly every neighborhood to take advantage of the clean power without the loss to transmission lines. There will not be one silver bullet to end reliance on fossil fuels, but there will be many blanks fired before we find the several we need.
One would think there would be safer areas to drill then California but the needs for energy are a must and some risk is required - in my view we should do this but nuclear too. Both could be more safely done in remote areas; that is IF we had a better power grid. The grid we have is most weak!!
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