We have not the foggiest idea how to harness all this energy and the products of its expenditure.
I think this guy did.
The interior of the earth has pockets of superheated steam, part of the force powering volcanic eruptions. Water is part of the structure of many minerals, integrated in the structure and providing the characteristics that distinguish a vast majority of minerals, particularly silicate minerals.
Under the heat and pressure in the earth’s core, and extending up to the “Mohorovicic Discontinuity” - also known as the Moho, there is a vast seething cauldron of ongoing chemical and physical reactions going on, but nowhere does the temperature reach “millions of degrees”. Surprising things like free hydrogen, and liquid carbon monoxide, or even molten carbon, are found in great profusion, joining and dissociating in a vast number of chemical reactions that are in a constant state of flux, until some such time as there is a vent released to the surface.
We have not the foggiest idea how to harness all this energy and the products of its expenditure.
But someone in coming centuries will discover the key, and the promise of virtually boundless “free” energy will ascertain future prosperity far beyond the artificial and unrealistic limitations of production of carbon dioxide.
Just the kind of of base compounds that can produce hydrocarbons like oil, natural gas.
We have not the foggiest idea how to harness all this energy and the products of its expenditure.
I think this guy did.
When I was about ten years old, Dad thrilled me with stories of Project Mohole. “Journey to the Center of the Earth” had come out a couple years earlier and exploration of the crust and the Mohorovicic Discontinuity was a pretty big thing. I haven’t thought about Mohole in decades!
Just ask Dr. Morbius.