Geothermal energy development

Initiating a challenging geophysical field program:

The temperatures of hot springs are known to be much higher at greater depths. The reason for the occurrence of hot springs can be due to normal heat flow within the earth or due to the presence of Hot Dry Rock (HDR). A hot dry rock is created when hot magama from the interior of the earth intrudes into the earth's outer layer, also known as the crust. If the event is generally less than 500 million years old, it will still be anomalously hot due to the decay of radioactive material within.

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On slaves, enslavement and emancipation

If you take all the issues that the world should concern itself with, they will add up to more than 365. At the rate we are screwing up things around us and each other, we would soon have to set aside hours and minutes and might even celebrate/commemorate a World Anti Book-Burning Minute at the 19th minute of the 8th hour of the 29th day of June.

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Brooding over GSP+?

EU’s Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) is a trade arrangement by which EU provides preferential access to the EU market covering 120 countries in the Union to 176 developing countries in the form of reduced tariff for three years at a time, encompassing (1) the standard GSP on over 6,200 tariff lines, (2) the special incentive arrangement for sustainable development and good governance and (3) The Everything But Arms (EBA) by which it provides duty free, quota free access to all products for the 39 Least Developed Countries (LDCs).

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