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Re:Earthquake in Japan yesterday may have shifted land 1.3 m... by sandworm101 on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @10:49AM (#38842797)
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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Re:Earthquake in Japan yesterday may have shifted land 1.3 m... by borgunit2 on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @11:15AM (#38843235)
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.

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Re:Earthquake in Japan yesterday may have shifted land 1.3 m... by rzzzt on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @11:31AM (#38843471)
A building-sized piezo crystal?
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Re:Earthquake in Japan yesterday may have shifted land 1.3 m... by lawlessone on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @11:48AM (#38843707)
Country sized.
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Re:Earthquake in Japan yesterday may have shifted land 1.3 m... by cm2187 on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @12:20PM (#38844123)
...and wait for the next major earthquake to even test it.
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Re:Earthquake in Japan yesterday may have shifted land 1.3 m... by squirtle24 on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @11:24AM (#38843364)
Or one clock tower and a flux capacitor...
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