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Stop Mining for Oil (and Coal), Start Drilling for Heat
June 20th, 2011 |
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The center of the Earth is a roiling ball of heat, roughly 6,000 degrees Celsius as near as we can tell without a sci-fi tunneling effort. The closest humanity has come to that molten core is some 12 kilometers beneath the continental crust in Russia, which isn’t even halfway through said crust and akin to [...]
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