Fascinating article. The idea of a "spin turbine" on that scale is audacious engineering. The need to pump water "uphill" being the weak point. There must be geographic locations where sufficient water that is in place could simply be channeled in order to generate power.
Talk about megascale permaculture engineering!
I was more familiar with the geothermal ideas. They have all been kicked around for a long time. It's not like people haven't wanted to find clean ways of generating power. Lot's of pilot projects have been funded and tried.
Fossil fuels weren't displaced. There has always been problems scaling these efforts up or duplicating them in less favorable locations.
Still, I would rather risk the possibility of slightly slowing the earth's rotation than the certainty of the disaster that's about to unfold.
You might like my articles. I write on the Climate Crisis. It's worse than most people think.
I am predicting that the next few years are going to be disastrously HOT. That doesn’t make me a “Doomer”. It makes me realistic about what's happening with the Climate System.
