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There's no reason to drill for this, and 6 miles down at 1000C presets less than ideal operating conditions for a turbine.

Any peak over about 2000ft should be sufficient for an atmospheric water generation plant to produce enough water for a down hill hydroelectric plant to power the atmospheric water generation plant with single digit ambient RH, and much lower elevations can be used in high RH climes.

I would recommend orienting collectors to the windward side to exploit the local humidity gain, in lower RH climes.

One of my projects is actually a water condensation, hydroelectric and gas liquefaction combined cycle plant.

That said, bores in areas with deep ground water do present an interesting opportunity for pumped storage, with the caveat that the turbomachinery is back in the bore hole and that's a really inconvenient place to fix it when it breaks.

This is actually the risk I came here to mention about deep bores.

Bore first, build later, otherwise you may be the unlucky winner of a fluid formation trapped under a rigid formation in the local geology.

https://theconversation.com/a-mud-volcano-has-been-erupting-...

I can't imagine it takes more than a few circuits of water through the bore to recover all of the energy, the static column of water alone would contain a non-trivial fraction of the energy required to drill the bore after equilibrating.

> Is there any conceivable burden urbanites don't imagine the people and land outside urban areas can tolerate?

The burden of wealth.

Good luck leaving just about any country when virtually the entire world wipes bum with the UN Charter on Human Rights and restricts freedom of movement in violation of Article 13.

> They can’t innovate because innovative type people weren’t let into the company.

I am starting to think this is a broader trend in human societies and is probably the primary failure mode of human enterprise more broadly.

People who aren't inclined to creative rational problem solving must still produce labors for the masters if they do not want to starve in the street like the examples we leave there to suffer publicly as a reminder of the cost of disobedience.

So, they obfuscate and manipulate the perception of competence and disenfranchise the creative rationalists to survive in the forced competition for artificially scarce basic necessities.

This evolves incrementally until there is no remaining economic activity except theft and fraud, the creative rationalists evacuate to the frontier, everyone else follows as things start sucking less over there, and the cycle begins anew.