I found this article really interesting. Boring holes over 12 miles deep to tap geothermal energy. Boreholes could be placed literally anywhere on the earth. One of their concepts involves drilling near coal fired power plants and replacing the heat source for the steam generators from coal to super heated water. It successfully developed it seems to have significant advantages to solar arrays and wind farms. The infrastructure is already there at the power plants to tie into the grid. Sun doesn’t always shine, wind doesn’t always blow, but the earth’s core will stay hot for a long time. Plus the geographic footprint is square meters, not thousands of acres.
https://newatlas.com/energy/quaise-deep-geothermal-millimeter-wave-drill/Greenies talk about solar being a green solution. Maybe in the desert. In Texas I know of two solar farms being built out of forested land. Millions of trees cut down in one fell sloop. At least one of them just pushed the trees into piles and burned them. Trees that would have converted CO2 into O2. Now released into the atmosphere as carbon. Instead of being a carbon sink. Solar farms don’t convert CO2 into O2 and they don’t last as long as trees do.
Here are pictures I took a couple of months ago (January) of the huge smoke plum rising from the site of one of the solar farms in central Texas. I didn’t look for satellite footage but the smoke plume seemed to be over a mile wide at the base and the smoke cloud was easily 60 miles across.
