And, there's the forgotten source, geothermal. Oregon s volcanic Cascade Range has a huge potential for this resource. The Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries estimates that the potential could be as much as 401,760 megawatts of electricity for 30 years, the rough equivalent of 400 Trojan nuclear plants. . Klamath Falls receives some benefit from geothermal sources at present. Other than that, nothing is happening in the geothermal arena.
Nobody seems to know why.
For those of us who watched Mt. St. Helens go off, there is little doubt that there's a lot of heat below ground. Christians, of course, have known about that for millennia. Fuel cell technology may be the wild card in all this. While primarily targeted at vehicles these days, the technology is now working on scales large enough to supply factories. Companies that lose a fortune in a blackout are beginning to install large fuel cell electric-generating plants.