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If geothermal energy were to be utilized at every opportunity, could all the thermal energy being pumped out of the ground create a new kind of environmental cr
by snickerbockers 2y ago
If geothermal energy were to be utilized at every opportunity, could all the thermal energy being pumped out of the ground create a new kind of environmental crisis? Or is there so much energy down there that mankind as a whole would never be able to make a non-negligible change to the earth in that way?
- bdamm 2y agoSimilar to how if we came up with some clean fusion and then multiplied all our energy use 10, 1000, 10,000-fold, then at what point would we be actually heating up the atmosphere directly (instead of indirectly via green house gasses)? I'd like to see the math on this too.
- readthenotes1 2y agoOr if we create cryptocurrency and AI training centers that require huge amounts of energy...
- tialaramex 2y agoNo. It will be a slightly warm damp rock regardless of what we do, until in the distant future the nearby star either destroys it or goes out leaving it to gradually cool down.