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Texas power prices soared 20,000% Wednesday evening amid another brutal heat wave.
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Spot electricity prices topped $5,000 per megawatt-hour, up more than 200 times from Wednesday morning.
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The state’s grid operator issued its second-highest energy emergency, then later said conditions returned to normal.
I wonder if they could drill down and capture the heat from the hotspot under Missouri.
Alaska, The Rockies, Yellowstone, the Sierras and the Cascades are all no brainers.
And Hawai’i for obvious reasons.
I’m not familiar with the geology of Missouri but it mostly depends on how deep you need to go. The deeper the more expensive it will be to build.
No. We’re absolutely NOT poking a hole into the world ending super caldera.
Don’t need too, you just need to boil water (or ammonia, or propane, etc) to spin turbines and Yellowstone does that on the surface