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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is welcoming home troops who served in Iraq, offering up their service as a lesson of the nation s character. There s a reason our military is the most respected institution in America, Mr. Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address. They don t see themselves or each other as Democrats first or Republicans first. They see themselves as Americans first. For all our differences and disagreements, they remind us that we are all a part of something bigger, that we are one nation and one people. President Obama marked the end of the Iraq war earlier in the week, meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in advance of the last American troops leaving Iraq by Dec. 31. The withdrawal
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Can enormous heat deep in the earth be harnessed to provide energy for us on the surface A promising report from a geothermal borehole project that accidentally struck magma 鈥?the same fiery, molten rock that spews from vo
stanley cup lcanoes 鈥?suggests it could. Above: One of Iceland geothermal power plants | Photo by Gretar Ivarsson via Wikimedia Commons. The Icelandic Deep Drilling Project, IDDP, has been drilling shafts up to 5km deep in an attempt to harness the heat in the volcanic bedrock far below the surface of Iceland. But in 2009 their borehole at Krafla,
stanley cup northeast Iceland, reached only 2,100m deep before unexpectedly striking a pocket of magma intruding into the Earths upper crust from below, at searing temperatures of 900-1000掳C. This borehole, IDDP-1, was the first in a series of wells drilled by the IDDP in Iceland looking for usable geothermal resources. The special report in this months Geothermics journal details the engineering feats and scientific results that came from the decision not to the plug the hole with concrete, as in a previous case in Hawaii in 2007, but instead attempt to harness the incredible geothermal heat. Wilfred Elders, professor emeritus of geology at the University of California, Riverside, co-autho
stanley mugs red three of the research papers in the Geothermics special issue with Icelandic colleagues. Drilling into magma is a very rare occurrence, and this is only the second known instance anywhere in the world, Elders said. The IDDP and Icelan
