[tt] Independent: Greener power to the people: the real energy alternative?

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From: Jef <jeffrey at visioncollective.org>
Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2008 21:44
Subject: Re: [tt] Independent: Greener power to the people: the real	energy alternative?
To: tt at postbiota.org


> As Wired magazine points out in its most recent issue, it would 
> be terribly irresponsible not to develop ALL forms of new energy. 
> Whether the "green" alternatives will be all that people hope is still a 
> matter for conjecture. There will no doubt be many places on the planet 
> where nuclear is the only good choice. Third generation reactors hold 
> great promise, and can be online as quickly as the "green" tech, with 
> the political will being equal.

Somethign I've wondered about for Quite Some Time:   You dig a hole a few thousand feet deep, the bottom of that hole is HOT, by comparison with surface temps.

Like three hundred degrees F.

I don't know what it costs to drill four thousand feet these days, but it's gotta be less than building a nuke plant.

And it ain't like the laws of Physics are gonna be repealed any time soon - four thousand feet of rock weighs a LOT, and that means pressure, and that means heat.

Why aren't we poking holes in the dirt everywhere, to exploit this free heat energy? (As an added bonus - we MIGHT hit oil!)