Cornell wants to drill 2-4mi underground for enhanced geothermal heating

Re:Cornell wants to drill 2-4mi underground for enhanced geo... by andruby on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @03:49AM (#12537859)

This assumes that nothing mayor is going to change. What if we somehow build a spaceship route from Earth to Mars and we power it through electricity. How much higher would our consumption be if we launch 10,000 spaceships every day?

Or maybe we want to terraform our own planet to counter climate change. These things could use amounts of energy orders of magnitude higher than we use today.

I'm sure 100 years ago didn't expect we would launch 100,000 airplane flights every day [0] :) Nor did they think we would send spaceships to Mars.

[0] http://www.garfors.com/2014/06/100000-flights-day.html

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Re:Cornell wants to drill 2-4mi underground for enhanced geo... by dpark on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @03:12PM (#12542375)

What if we also solve fusion and build a Dyson sphere and farm unicorns for automotive fuel?

It seems somewhat unreasonable to assume that our energy usage is going to exponentially increase due to as-yet-unforeseeable future needs and at the same time assume that we'll completely fail to find additional energy sources in the same timeframe.

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