This was actually published in an open-access journal, by the way, so it may as well be read there: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44172-023-00092-1 https://w

This was actually published in an open-access journal, by the way, so it may as well be read there: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44172-023-00092-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s44172-023-00092-1 The phenomenon seems to present both challenges and opportunities. Vertical ground displacement can stress building foundations and load-bearing structure components, not necessarily leading to building collapse or anything, but cracks, operational failure, excessive repair costs. On the other hand, capturing the waste heat could actually be fed back into the system to directly heat other buildings without needing to draw from the energy grid, so with more appropriate foundation designs, this phenomenon could actually be purely a good thing. The study here also publishes its code and data, by the way, so feel free to play around with it. I think it's unfortunate, but indicative of the incentives created by an upvote-based commenting system that the top comment here for a while was a person who picked out a single sentence and derailed the discussion within three minutes of the link being posted (I'm sure they read the whole article before doing that). Kinda shame on the New York Times for wording it that way, "scientists have taken to calling it." This study was published by one author and he's a civil engineer. Googling this phrase doesn't indicate anyone else I can ever find using it.