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

[Randall Webmail]

From: Jef <jeffrey at visioncollective.org>
Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2008 1:07
Subject: Re: [tt] Independent: Greener power to the people: the real	energy alternative?
To: tt at postbiota.org

> 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.

Actually, I have.  My family has been poking holes in the dirt for sixty years, wildcatting for oil.

Most of 'em get plugged; enough pay off to make it worthwhile to drill the next one.

Most holes in the ground do not produce petroleum in commercial quantities, but ALL of them produce heat.

Four thousand feet of rock weighs a LOT, and weight = pressure.

So why is this free energy not being exploited?