Case in point: Two hydroelectric dams in Argentina could flood cultural heritage sites and harm one of the world’s largest glacial icefields.

Something tells me this would be happen regardless of which country made the investment

Not the answer to your question but thanks for the reminder to cancel

Aren’t they also building like 16 nuclear plants?

Good luck getting a court to hear it when you won’t have a shred of evidence to show

Kinda? Not really, though. If anything it, the model’s response would just include “anti-commercial license” at the end and they’d get rid of that with further training

What is stopping corpos from scraping everyone’s posts and stuff from the fediverse and train their AI?

That very real and enforceable “this comment cannot be used to train AI” crap some people add to every comment that definitely makes bots not scrape the comment, of course!

They only have to be cheaper for deep drilling which is what’s currently prohibitively expensive - traditional drilling is still used for half the job.

It’s very, very new technology but they have to start somewhere. The rest of geothermal (running the power plant itself) is figured out but a drilling deeper brings significantly more power

This is an incredible shitpost. Every lemmy-specific meme so far has felt forced and lame but this one is a thing of beauty.

I think we were both being rude but I’m willing to drop it

The goal of this new project from Quaise (what the article refers to) is digging deeper and cheaper. We are physically able to get to the depths needed but it’s prohibitively expensive. If the technology works (it does) and is reliable (remains to be seen outside of a lab), it’s a HUGE deal because now suddenly geothermal is cost-effective.

Also worth noting that something cool about their approach is the tunnel creates it’s own pipe

Lol I don’t believe you read the article. Don’t lie now when anyone can scroll up and see that you wrote:

You dont have to go that deep to get to warmer than surface air, which is all thats needed to run a heatpump. I dont know what that group is aiming at, but its definitely not a moonshot.

They aren’t talking about drilling for heatpumps. Not knowing what they’re aiming for is a result of not having read the article.

Current drilling technology can’t get us deep enough for the energy we need to use geothermal as a power source. The company in the article is trying a very new method using gyrotrons to vaporize the rock after traditional drilling caps hits a financial barrier.

Real Engineering just put out a video on it if you’d rather watch than read.

Don’t know what to tell you except that it’s obvious you didn’t read the article nor have you looked into what it’s talking about. They need to go deep enough to get supercritical steam.

And yes I meant fission, not fusion. But go off on the rest I guess

Geothermal heating won’t stop climate change, this is about using geothermal for power which requires going deeper than traditional drilling can do. It’s about taking advantage of the fusion reactor under our feet.

They need to solve drilling deeper. This company is working on that

It’s not mostly solved because a huge portion of the world doesn’t live above shallow geothermal

I’ll wait it out, then. I’d love to use it for obvious reasons

I tried it out after the Instagram censorship and while I haven’t been back to Instagram, I also gave up on Pixelfed the 4th time I had to log in.

Is there a dark mode yet??

I do block them but like I said, they feel like the complete opposite of what social media sites like this are…a social site.

It’s all about the comments section and with a bot, there is no OP to talk to.

I think bots that just repost stuff suck the life out of the platform. It’s not organic sharing, you get EVERYTHING posted by the source website.

I’m actually really shocked at how accepted bots are here when it feels so antithetical to what the userbase generally stands for.

Great idea… Not so sure about the name, though. Hard to spread by word of mouth when you have to spell it out

Well it ain’t Blaze either lol

The two I had in mind rarely comment so I doubt I’ll ever see this. They might as well be bots.