I’ve been expecting Oracle to do this. It’d solve their current data center power problem. And it gives a place for Ellison to have video calls with the UN.
bryanrasmussen 4 minutes ago [-]
Elon is going to demand access to the Yellowstone Caldera pretty soon I'm guessing.
h4kor 1 hours ago [-]
βehemoth incoming
Gualdrapo 1 minutes ago [-]
They delved too greedly and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dûm. Shadow... and flame.
gaiagraphia 1 hours ago [-]
Great news for island nations and territories if this can scale. There’s something very sci-fi about islands powered by underwater volcanoes, and the jobs it could create would be fascinating. Going from pearl divers to subsea power-station drone technicians, ha.
I wonder what industries it could help thrive. afaik Iceland has a relatively big aluminium smelting industry due to its cheap, excess geothermal power. Could we see new opportunities spring up in places like Kerguelen, South Georgia or Tristan da Cunha? Modern takes on whaling stations?
bell-cot 2 hours ago [-]
I feel that I should be able name several Jules Verne characters, "B" movie villains, and such who powered their underwater lairs and/or sinister superweapons this way - but I'm coming up blank.
Anyone?
tomrod 1 hours ago [-]
The Incredibles did it second, and almost certainly there is a Bond Villian or knockoff Bond show that did it.
fooqux 51 minutes ago [-]
Did they though? Syndrome had a volcano base for sure, but I don't remember them ever showing a powerplant. The guy was harnessing zero point energy somehow; doesn't seem like mere lava would interest him as a power source.
bnln 46 minutes ago [-]
The Thunderbirds had Tracy Island
oersted 1 hours ago [-]
Fiat Cliche :)
Some tropes become only known from their parodies, and they lead to other parodies.
mlfreeman 1 hours ago [-]
All I can think of are supervillains in land based volcanoes not underwater ones
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I wonder what industries it could help thrive. afaik Iceland has a relatively big aluminium smelting industry due to its cheap, excess geothermal power. Could we see new opportunities spring up in places like Kerguelen, South Georgia or Tristan da Cunha? Modern takes on whaling stations?
Anyone?
Some tropes become only known from their parodies, and they lead to other parodies.