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WELCHE I 7 NOFORN
PROJECT SUN STREAK
WARNING NOTICE: INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED
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PROJECT NUMBER:
0094
(Tng)
SESSION NUMBER:
1
DATE OF SESSION:
16 FEB 90
DATE OF REPORT:
16 FEB 90
START:
0925
END:
0959
METHODOLOGY:
CRV
VIEWER IDENTIFIER: 052
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1.
(S/NF/SK) MISSION:
To describe the target site (Cerro Prieto power
plant in northern Mexico which uses volcanic steam to drive turbines) in
Stage 2 terminology.
2.
(S/NF/SK) VIEWER TASKING:
Encrypted coordinates only.
3.
(S/NF/SK) COMMENTS:
No Physical Inclemencies.
052 had good site
contact from the beginning, and gave very good Stage 2 descriptors.
Throughout the session, 052 kept voicing self-dissatisfaction because "I
can't figure out what this is!" Post session discussion centered around the
fact that 052 did not feel good about the results of the session (which are
very good results), and how the Viewer's desire to identify the site (which
is the Analyst's job) often gets in their way of describing the site (which
is the Viewer's job), and how it makes the Viewer dissatisfied with the
results.
How the Viewer feels about the session is therefore seen to be
more a function of incorrect structure or improper intent, and often has no
relationship to the validity or correctness of the information gained.
4.
(S/NF/SK) EVALUATION:
2
5.
(S/NF/SK) SEARCH EVALUATION:
N/A
MONITOR:
018
HANDLE VIA SKEET CHANNELS ONLY
EURE 17 NOFORN
CLASSIFIED BY:
DIA (DT)
DECLASSIFY:
DADR
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PI: none
AV: none
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16 Feb 90
0925
Ft. meade
018
384810
122482
miss BK
384810
122482
A. Angles
hard
XB. Structure
AOL BK
Canal
384810
122482
mcs
BK
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Y
384810
122482
miss BK
384810
122482
A. Angles, backware
hard
YB Structure
384810
122482
A. Angles
hard
B. Structure
A. Straight
hard
Land
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Rage
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Blue
Red
Black
Brown
Mangular
Smooth
Bright
Bright halt
yellow
U/IShape
1
Blue
Vague shapes
floating by
AI BK
Pretty color Blue
AOL BK
Everything is Blue
backround +
vague shapes are
floating
by
-
they seem to
be of a bright light
s glare
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Very Bright Light
AOL BK
There's Something
inside the light
brown/ black
light floating
by -not as long )
U/I Smell
round shape
moving in circle
Counterclockwise
~ clockwise
Blue light in center of shape
moving
Bigger / Smalles
weird shape / gone
AFBK
I Smell not unpleasantically neat
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vague shape
*
AOC BK
Peanut Butter Sm
AOC BK
machinery smell
AOL BK
mix above 2
Smells
Red
Blue
.
green
Too much Bt
waves of
light
Bird Sounds
squeaking / Squacking
Black
shape
AOL BK
Bird Somés
may be hear
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GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
The Power
of Letting
Off Steam
By KENNETH F. WEAVER
ASSISTANT EDITOR
CPYRGHT
THE SMELL OF BRIMSTONE hung on
the air. Steam vents hissed at me like
shakes. Craters of boiling mud seethed
and burped; black bubbles formed,
swelled, and collapsed with rude plops.
Heat had created a scabrous landscape al-
most devoid of vegetation and stained with
yellow streaks of sulfur and the white crusts
of mineral salts. It suggested an outpost of
Dante's Inferno-although it bore the more
earthly name Laguna Volcano.
Only a short distance away, towering
plumes of steam sent a muffled roar to my
ears. These plumes marked the location of
the new Cerro Prieto power plant in northern
Mexico. The heat that drove the electric gen-
erators of Cerro Prieto was the same heat
that had created the wasteland at my feet. It
was the terrible heat from inside the earth.
The cold, hard crust of our planet gives
Plumes of hope in the search for energy,
steam tapped from underground reservoirs
roars through pressure-release vents at The
Geysers steam field, where the Pacific Gas
and Electric Company operates a generat-
ing plant. Steam-driven turbines produce
enough power for a city of half a million.
The California facility is the only one in the
U. S. now turning earth heat into electricity.
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CPYRGHT
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