You could power all of AI with that. I don’t have any problem with siting all the data centers in the relatively unpopulated Great Basin.
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I’m thinking of writing a’ science fiction story about how humanity almost ran out of whale oil for lamps when petroleum was discovered, in the nick of time, and then we burned so much petroleum that we fouled the air and water and cut it back just in the nick of time, to be replaced by geothermal energy which, when launched at scale around the world, pulled so much energy from the earth’s center that the core cooled, the magnetic shield stopped, the atmosphere was stripped away, the oceans boiled off, and all that remained was a dead husk of a planet.
I’m working with the title: “The History of Mars”.
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Have the earthquake concerns been resolved?
Lots of opportunity. Why not more investment?
As to whale oil, you read abt camphine—turpentine alcohol blend used before kerosene.
I’m going to guess the cost of digging, coupled with the cost of maintenance of buried stuff.
Unfortunately, the unceasing need for energy is only part of the unrelenting demands of data centers. Another is water, and the Great Basin has very little of that, and what it has is already spoken for- sometimes many times over.
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Utah and Idaho are now employing the services of for-profit rainmakers.
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If we still had Sora, you could have produced the film version yourself.
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Unproven technology.
Several geothermal projects operate in California. Have been there for decades. One is owned by Warren Buffett.
How can you say unproven technology?
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The technology described in the article has never been deployed on a commercial scale.
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