U.S. firm mulls building geothermal power plant from Sidoarjo mudflow

Sounds pretty unlikely. According to one of the independent foreign researchers studying the mud volcano, the whole thing is subsiding and will eventually form a crater. Sine you'd want the mud at the hot spot to flow past the heat exchangers (or whatever), you have to have the damn thing floating or something to deal with the subsidence. Given all the geothermal potential elsewhere in Java, why bother?