Collaring The Dragon

Today I heard a re-airing of the idea, voiced by our Prime Minister, that we can, should and, yes, do use minimally, the natural heating that comes from deep beneath the earth's surface. The number of vehicle emissions reduced in using it, is astounding. That makes so much sense to me. It's a bit like thinking of our big appliances and how much heat they issue into a room. It's all usable and in its way, recyclable. If you don't believe it, hold your hand over your television set and find out the amount of ambient heat put out by it. You pay for it in using the TV but at the same time, it has an impact, minimally, on your thermostat read outs.Thinking outside of the box is always a good idea. We are trying to source energy by using more of it in expensive ways such as constructing dams and great fans, while we are sitting on top of the easiest way to get it, rather than building these huge facilities and paying for high end personnel to study them and plan for years before getting at it and doing something. Drilling down to the "furnace" near earth's core, where the temperatures are super high, makes sense. I realize it is a simplistic comment, but all science begins with an idea that is simple. How to effect it, is the hard part. What, down-the-road implications might be, is yet another thing, but the idea of using what's in our, to us, vast world under the skin of earth that we creep upon, is perhaps the new inner space that we need to explore. It's already on its way. You might not realize it, but this day, millions upon millions of gallons of oil are stored down there by oil companies in great caverns. They don't need to build tanks, they found ones that no one can see or currently complain about. Google that one. Man already uses inner space for his purposes: mining, gathering gas and oil. We spend huge amounts of tax money going into outer space and avoid finding out what's right under our feet, literally. Whether it be like taking the lid off Pandora's box to get busy and try this resource, is another matter that scientists and politicians will be chewing over for some time, but it is there. Simplistically speaking. There is so much "politickling" that goes on endlessly, that cooperation and actually getting things done by both the elected government and the opposition, is lost. If ever this time and energy wasted in gabblings about between partisan politicians, was spent more on working together to solve these issues, what a different world we might have. We are only a sigh away from so much more.