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

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 11:43:28PM -0500, Jef wrote:

> You try digging a hole a few thousand feet deep.

You drill, of course.

Here, my flat is heated by it:

http://www.geothermie-unterhaching.de/cms/geothermie/geothermie_web.nsf/id/pa_home_d.html

Make some electricity with it as well, using the Kalina cycle.
 
> If geothermal were that easy we would all be doing it already. But it is 

Everything is easy in the retrospect, once you know how.

> one of the technologies being explored, like ocean waves, ocean 

Waves have a lot of energy, so you've got some very expensive infrastructure
which gets wrecked continuously. This might be different with subsurface
streams, but I haven't seen a decent analysis.

> 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.

No, it doesn't. 

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