<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Richard Loosemore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rpwl@lightlink.com">rpwl@lightlink.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">Will it make any difference if we get efficient at stealing heat from<br>
the earth's core? When will we experience Peak geothermal energy? :-)<br>...<snip></div></blockquote></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I've wondered this very same thing. Especially considering Jevons paradox, population growth, etc.</div>
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Stealing heat through geothermal will make no appreciable impact, even over the course of a few million years. Plenty of time to develop the fusion, flying cars, space elevators sending down truckloads of high-density energy collected in space......</blockquote>
</div><br><div>Unintended consequences? Is the geo-loop's depth/usage so minuscule as to seriously not even warrant consideration?</div>