fzimper - Slashdot User

Comment: Feasible? Sure! (Score 3, Insightful) 997

by fzimper on Thursday January 13, 2011 @07:23PM (#34870110) Attached to: Are 10-11 Hour Programming Days Feasible?

Effective? Hardly!

Comment: Oh My God! (Score 1) 978

by fzimper on Monday November 09, 2009 @10:57AM (#30032808) Attached to: Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss?

what happened to Slashdot?

Comment: Re:Drilling for geothermal energy may harm your ho (Score 1) 251

by fzimper on Thursday December 18, 2008 @03:32AM (#26156843) Attached to: Drilling Hits an Active Magma Chamber In Hawaii

It's rising. According to the latest news.

Comment: Drilling for geothermal energy may harm your home (Score 5, Interesting) 251

by fzimper on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @05:22PM (#26151047) Attached to: Drilling Hits an Active Magma Chamber In Hawaii

In the German city of Staufen, they drilled some 140m deep holes to get geothermal energy for heating the town hall and adjacent buildings.

Unfortunately, this drilling caused many cracks in houses around the city centre. Some of these cracks are said to be big enough that you can put your fingers in.

According to this article on the English Spiegel (a German news magazine) website, dated March 2008, the whole city is sinking. In a recent German article from November, they write that the city has risen several centimeters due to water mixing with gypsum deep down and therefore causing the gypsum to expand.