Not cool, hot!

With standard near-surface geothermal energy, boreholes up to 200 meters are drilled. The heat difference from that depth is only around 10-15°C, but that's enough to collect the energy to heat buildings.

So yes, drilling into lava areas will spice up things.

Great game and amazing simulation! I fee likel I learned a lot about the difficulty of balancing thermal loads in a closed system.

Actually, I really did enjoy that movie as well. I believe it's called The Core and came out in 2008 If I remember correctly.

Spin a turbine, generate electricity, transmit via HVDC?

Don't worry, water boils, steam spins turbine.

The article says they have one example of drilling into a magma chamber and it not going boom. I hope their optimism is justified, but this looks like the plot at the beginning of an apocalyptic movie

There’s nothing wrong with thermal energy plants. They are real and with companies like Eavor making real commercial plants using closed-loops there’s a lot of stuff happening in the space right now.

Yeah what's with the weird fixation on magma over there at the uh... *checks notes* Krafla Magma Testbed Organization?

You realise geothermal is included in the category of clean, green energy? And Iceland has been pioneering the field for ages?

This is not something I had ever thought about before and I am also fascinated.

Fun fact, when you touch acidic magma/lava, it does burn your skin!

we drilled too greedily, and too deep. You know what we awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum. Shadow and Flame.

I'm less concerned about that and more concerned about supervillains building lairs.

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Pluto?

You can throw your trash in the lava to create more.

You get a bonus smokey flavor, and that is how stars are made.

Renewable in the sense of solar, by the time it runs out we'll have bigger things to worry about