There is only one goddess Gaia and Al Gore is her only prophet...

[kandrathe]

You can get a little bit (relative to overall needs) at naturally occurring hot spots. To get it elsewhere, you need deep drilling.

From a practical point of view, the biggest benefit of geothermal can be access within a few hundred feet of the surface. There is no need to tap the heat of the core, since the heat radiates to the lithosphere.

Yeah, yeah. He's a POS because he is a liberal. Nothing to do with your bias.

Who said POS? I don't care if he's a liberal. I just think he's an embarrassment as the self declared spokesperson.

Why does he have credibility? Because most of his facts are right. Because he is one of the few in public life that actually gives a damn about the future of this planet and of the human race. And that, compared to most conservatives (and, I'm beginning to think, libertarians), he is the epitome of truth.

Pete, if someone wrote the kind of crap he spews on the lounge, you'd hand him his butt daily. I feel he's a promoting his own interests by generating hysteria. It's no better than Bush promoting oil, when his family and friends are soaked in it. Check out his involvement with Silver Springs, or Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers, or Generation Investment Management, which then subsequently benefit from the recent "stimulus" of 34 billion into the clean energy promotion. At best, he's a lobbyist who uses his status and prestige to convince his erstwhile cronies in Washington to spend taxpayers money and enact policy that directly benefits him.

P.S. Potato, Tomato. Gaia, or Gaea. Perhaps you might write to these folks and instruct them on their error.