Indonesia struggles to tap volcano power

[rangerrebew]

Indonesia struggles to tap volcano power
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By Sam Reeves (AFP)     7 hours ago in Environment

Columns of steam shoot from the ground at an Indonesian power plant sitting in the shadow of an active volcano, as energy is tapped from the red-hot underbelly of the archipelago.

Pipes zig-zag up rugged mountainsides covered in tea plantations, carrying steam from the Earth's core to power enormous, electricity-generating turbines at the Wayang Windu facility on Java island.

Indonesia, a seismically-active island chain studded with scores of volcanoes, holds an estimated 40 percent of the world's geothermal energy reserves, but has long lagged behind in its use of the renewable power source.

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/indonesia-struggles-to-tap-volcano-power/article/475656#ixzz4LGrDBhGt

[Right_in_Virginia]

Well, good luck with that.   

[GtHawk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHtZ6Ixeqvs

What could possibly go wrong?

[Wingnut]

There's an island in the South Pacific called Waponi Woo. The name means little island with a big volcano. Now, the Waponis are a cheerful people who live a simple existence, fishing in the lagoon, picking fruit. Their one fear is that big volcano. They call it the big Woo. They believe, that an angry fire god in the volcano will sink the island! Unless, once every 100 years he is appeased. It's been 99 years, 11 months and 11 days since the fire god got his propers and the Waponis are scared!

[uglybiker]

As long as it's not a mud volcano.
The Indonesians have bad luck with those.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-12567163