Leslie Blodgett

December 03, 2014

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The graph above shows jobs created at actual geothermal power plants using information GEA collected over the last few years; companies are kept anonymous to protect proprietary information. View this along with presentations to the Committee on Earth Sciences at dels.nas.edu.

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The fantastic geothermal renewable energy potential, both active (600 degrees C) and passive, has been IGNORED by the US Government for well over 50 years since it spent millions studying it.

I’ll give you a couple of pictures with U.S. Department of Energy data for you to contemplate. The U.S. Government doesn’t just own 28% of all the land in the USA, it owns over 90% of all the land with maximum active geothermal potential.

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As of March 2012, out of the 2.27 billion acres in the country, about 28% of the total was owned by the Federal government according to the Interior Department.

And THAT 28% that has VAST Renewable Energy potential in geothermal, wind, solar, hydro and biomass (along with giant offshore and coastal current undersea turbine potential) has been used almost EXLUSIVELY for so-called fossil fuel resources, ALL of which are profit over planet crapitalist plays for CORPORATIONS, not we-the-people.

Those lands BELONG to we-the-people but are being TRASHED in rampant, polluting, biosphere endangering exploitation for fossil fuels.

Don’t you think this is somewhat WRONG!!? Don’t you think it’s time to STOP crapitalizing those lands and DEMAND that they be CONSERVED, Cared for and used EXCLUSIVELY for Renewable Energy so the wildlife on them and we-the-people get an IMPROVED biosphere instead of a diseased and dying one from dirty energy (including nuclear!) industry produced poisons?

We need to get our priorities straight. Business as usual (see graphic below) is suicidal.

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