Wasted Energy For 45 Years With No End In Sight

todays adventure with Gordon Tindall
We have all of the tree huggers and elected officials looking at this underground burning coal for yeas. Have they tried
to extract energy to make power ? What a site for a greenhouse!
Jan 21st, 2008
Dear Editor,

Thanks to the generosity of Gordon Tindall of the Red Rose Diner, I was driven to Centralia, Pa. today and felt the hot ground temperatures where smoke was escaping. Centralia is a now ghost town. It is a victim to an underground coal fire. It is sad that most of the people had to be moved. It is sadder that not one BTU appears to being used for something positive. They have had 45 years to come up with something other than saying the sky is falling.
I find that the lack of any process to capture this heat to do something positive very sad.
Society should be making lemonade out of the lemons the good people of Centralia have been handed.
If our engineers can not come up with some positive use of this "free" energy then we deserve to be doomed
into extinction. Where are the elected officials and Gov. Rendell in either heating some green houses, or running heat engines to pump electricity
back into the grid? Hell, you could raise talapia there and grow food all winter long! The possibilities are almost limitless.
However it is plain to me that our government hampers progress and does not encourage it.

And I don't hear any major presidential candidates talking about the dangers of paper less ballots or eminent domain abuse. I don't hear any candidate pushing for the raising of industrial hemp to help reduce pollution in making paper. Bush wants to give us money back so that we can buy more crap from China and make them even stronger? Have China pay to feed their own damn Panda bears!

Mr. Bush we need farming, mining or manufacturing jobs right here in the USA. We don't need more retail stores!!!!




Sincerely,
Joseph Rene Dupont
RR2 99A SR 2024
Towanda, pa 18848
570 268 4178
joedupont@JUNO.COM