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0 pointsmichaelbrave2y ago0 comments

half jokingly I thought "so we just need 160 power plants to bring it down to 100 years"

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In the article it's said the proposal already included 160 plants in a big ring around yellowstone, resulting in the 16,000 years figure.

So to get it down to 100 years you'd need 160^2 = 25,600 geothermal plants.

Perfectly reasonable, let's do it.

Plus you’d take a great step towards solving our energy problems.

We'll except the fact that deep geothermal plants are completely theoretic as a means of production - the final cost of power is a big ???.

Most people want cheap power. Anything over around 20 cents a kWh makes it uncompetitive to fossile equivalents (e.g. wood / oil / gas heating).

pram2y ago

The Factorio method of problem solving, I like it.

chii2y ago

hehe, or drilling down into the magma chamber 160 times causes it to erupt prematurely.

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