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Sunday, January 15, 2012

If you were already worried about fracking and earthquakes ...


Geothermal energy developers plan to pump 24 million gallons of water into the side of a dormant volcano in Central Oregon this summer to demonstrate new technology they hope will give a boost to a green energy sector that has yet to live up to its promise.
 Not to be irrationally fearful, but how good an idea is it, really, to mess around with volcanoes?