Love this.
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Wasnāt that what the Roman estate agent said to Pompeiās villa purchasers?
I can see some people being conflicted by the idea of fracking for geothermal energy.
Sure and thatās addressed directly in the article.
Thatās a very good article.
Incredible opportunities and mental engineering challenges, but it will come. It pretty much has to at some point.
If we could all work out how to remove C02 that would be the forum funding sorted for the next 500 years.
Valves? Horns? If we can sort out hum issues and vertical tracking we can surely scale up to get this one in the bag?
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With unlimited energy you could just build and run CO2 capture/ scrubbers or just plant some trees.
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Interesting. In the end I guess it will come down to whether the engineering challenges can be solved cheaply enough for the technique to be competitive.
I was a bit surprised the basic geophys numbers werenāt larger. Radioactive decay in the earth (the whole planet) is generating 30TW of geothermal power. Humanity, at the moment, is using more than half that much power for everything it does (heating, lighting, cooking, transport, industry, Nelson Passās amps etc). By contrast the planet is intercepting more than 100,000TW of light, heat etc from the sun. Some of that is being unavoidably lost through re-radiation back into space. But photosynthetic life, without any help from us, has worked out how to harvest about 100TW from it. Geothermal has the advantage that while its power is quite low, it has spent aeons storing that power up as heat energy in the rocks. That might sound like a vast resource. But realistically we arenāt going to extract from the whole of the earthās crust. Weāre just going to sink wells and extract from, what, a few cubic miles, or tens of cubic miles, at each one ? So we can access just a tiny fraction of whatās down there. And how long will it be before our extraction has cooled the local rock and the plant operators have to move all their kit somewhere else ? Or can conduction in from the surroundings actually keep the rock in one place usefully hot indefinitely ? Given that business is putting money into this I guess the basic science isnāt a show-stopper.
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Have none of you seen āthe coreā 
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@dom have you ordered your panels yet? Looks like Iām finally about to get install dates in the next couple of days. Had a frustrating delay after some miscommunications but weāre getting there.
Not yet, get the keys for the place in 3 weeks time then getting the survey done. Still planning on doing it 
Meanwhile, Teslaās predictions of solar output based on British weather never changing worked as well as ever. After 3 days of 20kWh plus generation, it decided that it didnāt need to put anything in for Monday where the total output was 3.5.
Can you explain a bit more about how it works?
Not sure I can, the only options for time based control is to set the peak/off peak times and set a reserve. There isnāt any way to directly set how much you put in overnight.
We reckon that it works incrementally on previous export/import amounts given what we have seen, crashing the battery usually ups the overnight import for the next day by 10 or 20% and export drops it down lots.
Solarās supposed to be going in today. Apparently the wrong panels have been delivered 
Theyāve put the scaffolding up and the battery/electrics are being done and the new panels wonāt be here until Thursday.
1st full day of solar install and itās probably the gloomiest day in two months 
Anyway hereās my new Naim battery power supply.
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Actually, unless your weather is very different to ours the 10th had less sun (1.58kWh total generation compared to 5.06kWh so far today). Feb 14th was even worse at 801Wh, a mere 3.92% of theoretical maximum generation.
Yes, I have graphs for this.
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Disappointed itās not GibEnergy.
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LOL, you know what to do!
Does the hifi sound better on solero power?
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