This heat can be tapped by drilling, and injecting water which comes back as steam.
Doesn't this make sense?
Should we be more careful about using oil, a limited resource?
2006-11-04 13:22:37 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
Actually idiot that I am, it is already being done, under Swiss supervision. You guys that insult people would not have faired well at some of the places that I have worked. Nor would you talk that way to my face.
2006-11-04 14:03:46 · update #1
Geothermal heat would help a lot. First we should be certain that our homes are well insulated. If everyone was to install a ground water heat pump, it would lower heating bills (and fuel consumption) and make it cheap to cool in the summer. Heating and cooling are two of our biggest energy demands. What you are suggesting makes a ton of sense.
2006-11-04 14:17:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good idea! There's only one problem. All the hot spots I know about are too pretty to build a power plant over. What do we want? Power or the beauty of nature?
Hawaii, Iceland, Old Faithful, The hot spots under the sea. The pacific rim. I thinks that's what they call the string of volcanoes going around the earth. There's probably a hot spot someplace we can use. How about in outer space? I remember seeing a movie on tv. They said you could fry if you were not protected from the sun. Its probably not true. Oh well.
2006-11-04 21:48:22 · answer #2 · answered by Simple 8 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be an almost impossible task to do this. The dpeth at which we would have to drill, the costs, the lack of technology to actually get to that layer of the planet.
We are going to be stuck on oil until we run out or someone figures out a new type of fusion. Cold fusion anyone?
2006-11-04 21:31:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What kind of energy source are you gonna use to drill all the way to the core. And what would the drill be made of (so it wouldn't melt.) I think the Earth has been ravaged enough without any more idiotic ideas like this one.
2006-11-04 21:32:18 · answer #4 · answered by the universe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Getting heat is not a problem. There are many installations of geothermal energy. However, that can't be readily done everywhere. Access to heated steam or magma is not readily available everywhere it's needed.
BUT, you can't run cars from geothermal energy directly.
2006-11-04 21:40:08 · answer #5 · answered by arbiter007 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oil is nice because it can be transported very easily. Even if it's possible to tap geothermic heat, it's troublesome to transport it any significant distance.
2006-11-04 21:28:21 · answer #6 · answered by Keiron 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not to me i dont know about yall but the earth is confusing
2006-11-04 21:31:37 · answer #7 · answered by guy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋