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by ftxbro 1071 days ago
> "Back-of-envelope, that Osceola event released about 10^19 Joules of energy*. The scale of these things is absolutely incredible."

I wonder can we put a kind of "earth turbine" to capture some of that energy? Maybe tap it somehow to not release all in one catastrophe and make it safer at the same time.