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Re:Quaise Energy is working to create geothermal wells by lxgr on Thursday August 04, 2022 @10:03AM (#32343057)
Solar radiation, ultimately (wind heats air, air expands, that creates a pressure differential which ultimately caused wind).

Maybe you‘re thinking of tidal power plants? Tides are gravitationally caused, and as far as I know tapping into them infinitesimally changes Earth‘s rotation (and to some extent probably also Earths and the Moon‘s orbit).

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Re:Quaise Energy is working to create geothermal wells by pantulis on Thursday August 04, 2022 @02:38PM (#32346665)
Well I was thinking of the geothermal energy that Quaise is pretending to extract.
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Re:Quaise Energy is working to create geothermal wells by TheCoelacanth on Thursday August 04, 2022 @03:08PM (#32347019)
Geothermal energy comes from a mixture of radioactive decay and from gravity pressuring the Earth's core into gradually solidifying over the course of billions of years.
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