Astro Hacker News - Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in "proof point" test

koolba |next [-]

I’ve been expecting Oracle to do this. It’d solve their current data center power problem. And it gives a place for Ellison to have video calls with the UN.

h4kor |next |previous [-]

βehemoth incoming

gaiagraphia |next |previous [-]

Great news for island nations and territories if this can scale. There’s something very sci-fi about islands powered by underwater volcanoes, and the jobs it could create would be fascinating. Going from pearl divers to subsea power-station drone technicians, ha.

I wonder what industries it could help thrive. afaik Iceland has a relatively big aluminium smelting industry due to its cheap, excess geothermal power. Could we see new opportunities spring up in places like Kerguelen, South Georgia or Tristan da Cunha? Modern takes on whaling stations?

bell-cot |previous [-]

I feel that I should be able name several Jules Verne characters, "B" movie villains, and such who powered their underwater lairs and/or sinister superweapons this way - but I'm coming up blank.

Anyone?

tomrod |root |parent |next [-]

The Incredibles did it second, and almost certainly there is a Bond Villian or knockoff Bond show that did it.

fooqux |root |parent [-]

Did they though? Syndrome had a volcano base for sure, but I don't remember them ever showing a powerplant. The guy was harnessing zero point energy somehow; doesn't seem like mere lava would interest him as a power source.

bnln |root |parent [-]

The Thunderbirds had Tracy Island

oersted |root |parent |next |previous [-]

Fiat Cliche :)

Some tropes become only known from their parodies, and they lead to other parodies.

mlfreeman |root |parent |previous [-]

All I can think of are supervillains in land based volcanoes not underwater ones