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Yes, the cooling aspect is what TFA says is doable. It's the heat transmission / drilling part that's hard (It's 400C or worse and 1+km down). They have some r
by jvanderbot 5y ago
Yes, the cooling aspect is what TFA says is doable. It's the heat transmission / drilling part that's hard (It's 400C or worse and 1+km down).
They have some reasonable solutions. We'll never do it. Environmental conservation groups would see it as a capitalist cash grab, and the right would see it as a waste of money and energy based on alarmist scientists getting too much press. And anyway, we'll drain all the water out of the west coast in 50 years and there'll be nothing left to set up a pump / capture plant.
- seandoe 5y agoSo take your ball and go home.
- dboreham 5y agoWater in the Yellowstone ecosystem comes from local snowpack -- the area contains the headwaters for the Yellowstone and Snake rivers and so is a net exporter of water.
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoBuild hyperloops, build pipelines, build utilidors, use them for HVDC and implement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Water_and_Power_Alliance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Water_and_Power... or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Recycling_and_Northern_Development_Canal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Recycling_and_Northern_D...