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Re:Cornell wants to drill 2-4mi underground for enhanced geo... by menacingly on Monday September 19, 2016 @01:50PM (#12533241)
The same thing has occurred to me about wind. I don't know the numbers, of course, but it seems like there is a scale at which the wind no longer has energy it needs to do windy stuff
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Re:Cornell wants to drill 2-4mi underground for enhanced geo... by maxerickson on Monday September 19, 2016 @02:00PM (#12533318)
Just for scale estimation, a hurricane is much larger than human electric utilization.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/hurricane-power.html

What it amounts to is that the amount of solar energy reaching the Earth is just massive.

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