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Friday, March 11, 2011, Japan was rocked by the largest earthquake ever to strike its shores. The 9.1 magnitude quake triggered a devastating tsunami that killed more than 15,000 people. It also took out the back-up emergency generators that cooled the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant complex, causing a series of catastrophic meltdowns.
But amid the chaos, the Yanaizu-Nishiyama geothermal power plant in Fukushima prefecture didn't miss a beat. Along with two more of the nine geothermal power plants in the region, the 65-megawatt facility continued to generate power, even as many other power plants around them failed because of damaged equipment and transmission lines.
[...] In a country as seismically active as Japan, it was a clear signal that geothermal energy was worth investing in.
http://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/1/15/14270240/geothermal-energy
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday January 17 2017, @06:27PM
OMGOMGOMG! Stop the Evil Geothermal greenies now, they will pump out all the quakes and cause them tectonics to stop!!!