[lbo-talk] Nukes vs. Renewables

[Gar Lipow]

On 4/26/06, Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> This Emeritus Professor John Veevers (below) makes good sense to me and touches
> on a non-carbon based power source which may have application on other parts of
> the planet.
>

Hi Mike. Yes that is geothermal. Unless the resources are  much
greater than the geothermal industry estimates, for most of the world
this wil remain a small resource. Not that it is not worth taking
advantage of; every little bit helps. Australia is not the only
country with large geothermal resources. Iceland is well supplied too.

 The U.S. could I think get about 1/2 percent of demand from known
economic geothermal reserves  - but that is from memory and I could be
overstating.