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We do not try to capture and bank energy from more or less reliably annual hurricanes because we are not fucking insane. They are rightly classed as natural dis
by ncmncm 4y ago
We do not try to capture and bank energy from more or less reliably annual hurricanes because we are not fucking insane. They are rightly classed as natural disasters, not resources. Nukes will rightly come to be seen much the same way, a phenomenon to hope people elsewhere suffer, if anyone must.
- roenxi 4y agoThat isn't an argument or a reason. The problem is they aren't reliably available. If hurricanes were an ongoing phenomenon we would harvest the energy - like we do for wind. Using volcanoes for power is absolutely on the cards. Apparently the hard part is finding the magma chambers [0]. The barriers are entirely practical in that these power sources don't scale well and aren't easy to get on demand. None of the problems there are similar to having a tokamak - it isn't like we are going to struggle to find the tokamak (it will be marked on the map with something like "tokamak here") and it will likely have a big on/off switch. [0] https://www.science.org/content/article/could-volcanoes-power-world https://www.science.org/content/article/could-volcanoes-powe...
- ncmncm 4y agoWe reliably get multiple hurricanes every year, each releasing far more energy than we could use. We do not, in fact, extract that energy. We also never, ever drill into magma chambers. Drilling into a magma chamber is a good way to get a new, vitrified surface, several feet deep, for miles around what was once your drilling rig.