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0 pointssandworm1012y ago0 comments

I'm not sure about that. Drill some holes, pump some water, and geothermal power straight to the grid can be done. Harvesting lighting would require innumerable towers and even would require some trickery to get it hooked up to our power grids.

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borgunit22y ago

That’s not kinetic earthquake energy, though.

I think in an apples-to-apples comparison, you would need to attach some kind of device to absorb the kinetic energy from the fault.

rzzzt2y ago

A building-sized piezo crystal?

lawlessone2y ago

Country sized.

squirtle242y ago

Or one clock tower and a flux capacitor...

cm21872y ago

...and wait for the next major earthquake to even test it.

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