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

[Jef]

Randall Webmail wrote:
> 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.
>
> <snip>
> Why aren't we poking holes in the dirt everywhere, to exploit this free heat energy? (As an added bonus - we MIGHT hit oil!)
>   

You try digging a hole a few thousand feet deep.

If geothermal were that easy we would all be doing it already. But it is 
one of the technologies being explored, like ocean waves, ocean 
temperature differentials, etc. etc. We will see how it progresses. 
There is plenty of information on it on the internet, wikipedia, etc.

Nuclear works and works now.