• stoy@lemmy.zip
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    6 months ago

    An idea I have thought about, nuclear boosted geothermal power.

    Geothermal power normally just use a simple borehole with a hose going down and then up again, coolant goes in the hole, gets heated up a few degrees and the can then be processed to heat a house.

    What if we could run tubes near the nuclear waste that will keep producing heat for thousands of years?