The philanthropic arm of commercial search engine giant Google announced it will invest 10.25 million dollars in a variant of Enhanced Geothermal Systems, or EGS. Even the late night Republican pizza partiers might like this one; they can literally drill all the way to hell and back!

The technology differs from "traditional" geothermal in that rather than exploiting existing wells of earthbound steam and hot water, EGS drills deep — miles down — to access layers of heated granite that exist underfoot everywhere on the planet. Water can be circulated downward for heating, and then upward to drive turbines and generate electricity. ...

Of course, $10 million in R&D support is measly against the roughly $1 billion the Energy Department suggests would be needed to really deploy EGS on a mass scale, but the three beneficiaries of Google’s venture are surely not complaining.

And of course, one-billion dollars to tap into a global ocean of clean, unlimited subterranean energy is measly compared to the trillion or so tax dollars President and Vice-President sh*t-for-brains, Exxon John McSame, and their merry band of neocon clowns are 'investing' in Iraq at the rate of half a billion a day. How's that investment return going fellas? Oh, yeah, right. Wake me when November ends.