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Khuda@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

Houston-based startup Quaise Energy is testing technology that melts and even vaporizes rock to unlock "superhot" rock geothermal energy.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Houston-based startup Quaise Energy is testing technology that melts and even vaporizes rock to unlock "superhot" rock geothermal energy.

www.houstonchronicle.com

Khuda@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago
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    Lab data confirm potential of geothermal’s holy grail: superdeep, superhot rock as important renewable energy source

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      geothermal

      renewable

      WTF are they smoking?

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        I guess it’s not technically renewable but the reservoir of geothermal energy is so vast it’s hard to see how it could be used up and it has minimal environmental impacts.

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          Don’t current geothermal techniques trigger small earthquakes in the midwest and Ohio Valley?

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            It is possible depending on the technology used. I personally don’t think the earthquake issue is as big of a deal as people think it is. We’re talking quakes so small you don’t even feel them.

            I don’t know if this would compound and lead to larger ones if there were more facilities. If so it could be a bigger concern.

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          To be fair, I don’t even consider solar and wind power to be renewable. But then again I’m the sort of weirdo that considers things on astronomical timescales.

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            Renewable doesn’t exist on astronomical time scales, so you’re just being an ass.

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              “Renewable” is just a word they came up with to keep us from doing something about the fact that the sun will grow into a red giant with a diameter larger than Earth’s orbit.

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                So an Astronomical Ass then, noted.

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