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a small mountain area that had 14 Geo Thermal turbine stations making cheap power, but a small amount of naturally occurring Arsenic coincided with the steam. Even though the Arsenic was totally contained, the Greeners took 'em to court and shut the whole thing down. Hooray for them. Too bad for for us. Let's put some propellers on poles.


That is a shame, if the arsenic is naturally occurring and is normally released anyhow through a geothermal spring, I think it's stupid to shut it down, especially given how easy it would be to condense the steam after the power turbines and separate out the arsenic before releasing the condensate. Not terribly challenging, which makes me wonder if there is more to the story....