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Movie About Dramatic Drilling and Rescue of 33 Chilean Miners

October 29, 2015 rockman Miscellaneous Comments Off on Movie About Dramatic Drilling and Rescue of 33 Chilean Miners

This is pretty cool! It’s not every day that you have a major Hollywood motion picture that features drillers as the unlikely heroes! The movie ‘The 33" stars some big names like Antonio Banderas, Lou […]

Preparing for the Big One: Assessing American Building Codes
Geologic Hazards

Preparing for the Big One: Assessing American Building Codes

June 21, 2010 rockman Geologic Hazards Comments Off on Preparing for the Big One: Assessing American Building Codes

Audio files and PowerPoint presentations from an ENR-moderated panel discussion on June 8, 2010 discussing US seismic codes in the context of the observations made from the recent Haiti and Chile earthquakes. The 2010 earthquakes […]

Drill rig at the Newberry Geothermal Project site
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Project to pour water into volcano to make power

January 30, 2012 rockman Project Related Comments Off on Project to pour water into volcano to make power

I kept the same title of the source article for my post…it is a very simple explanation of the enhanced geothermal systems or EGS process of extracting geothermal energy from hot, dry rocks…even if it […]