Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS)

Learn about the great potential for EGS with this video from google.org. For more information check out www.google.org/egs

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[consuma808]

Saying geothermal energy will cool the earth's core is like saying burning coal will use up all the oxygen in the atmosphere, or wind turbines will stop the wind from blowing. The amount of thermal energy that would be used is localized to near the surface and is nothing compared to the total thermal content of earth. Plus decay of radioactive elements in the earth will lead to more thermal heat in the future. There is zero danger of cooling the earth's core from this.

[MasterOfAllPros]

all of your comments are intriguing, yes its costly, perhaps it will cool the core, perhaps.. i seriously doubt the earth will cool down, we are only touching the earths outer core, the core will always stay hot, man will not deplete the cores heat, because 1. we dont need that much 2. if we do, nobody will allow harvesting of the core. we must consider doing this worldwide to replace the almost depleted oil and fossil fuels, we must realize the future and use this to our advantage

[JasonVladimir]

So simple it's brilliant!

[Squatchmichael]

@MasterOfAllPros We are not even close to touching the outer core of the earth. The earth is about 6370 km in radius, so if we drill down even 10km (upper limit of capabilities), that is 100% x 10/6370 < 0.16% of the distance to the core. And the core is kept at high temperature from lithostatic pressure. But what do I know, I am just a geophysicist :)

[Keessince1988]

Watch Zeitgeist Moving Forward. It presents a possible new social global system and economy. We need a new global economy if we want EGS to be a success. Energy needs to be scarce to make a profit of it in this system. That's why we will never utilize EGS fully. We need a new system which is based on the Earth resources and not based on infinite growth on a planet with finite resource like we have now. Zeitgeist Moving Forward is featured on my channel.

[pansongrengurenge]

@5random1 not good with this stuffs lol

[DaBomb1]

I wonder whether the pipes could be broken if there is a bit of seismic activity...that seems like it could be the biggest barrier to this. Drilling holes that deep must be expensive, and tectonic plates can move a great deal during an earthquake.

[5random1]

@pansongrengurenge

You neither understand what is being done, nor how earth's core heat and crust heat function.

Try geology 101 and physics 101 (high school courses will be adequate)

[pansongrengurenge]

geothermal will make earth ice age once again

[acharad]

@consuma808 Earth's core remains hot as long as the sun exists and earth turns around the sun. - because the sun is also heating that core by magnetic induction energy | And be sure that the total energy that sun gives to earth by induction and light emission is much larger than those risky nuclear thingies. (e.g. it is needed to process 10 tons of non fissile uranium-238 mineral to acquire about 60kgs of fissile uranium-235 and generates 4kgs of waste after usage to keep for 250 years)

[kunoization]

but jesus always said moderation was key