Environment vs Big Business

only so many places before it becomes a big environmental problem. Cold-fusion (room-temperature fusion) involves the complicated process of turning dense water (2H2O or D2O) into a cheap, clean, and abundant power source. It is said to be limitless in its ability to produce energy for an ever-expanding population on Earth. It is foreseeable in the future that cold-fusion would be used as a major power source but some scientists believe that it could take as long as half a century or more before it would become economically and scientifically feasible. Geothermal energy is based off of the fact that the Earth's crust becomes hotter with increasing depth. This means that enormous quantities of heat are available as a resource for possible use. Geothermal industry today uses hot aquifers or natural flowing zones for production of energy, but these resources are very limited compared with the huge amount of energy stored in the large volume of deep crystalline basement rocks which have high temperatures but very limited water resources. We are slowly learning how to exploit these hot rocks in order to gain access to this environmentally friendly and valuable resource. The approach is to use the natural fractures in the deep rock as a giant heat exchanger but experimentation into power for the masses has slowed considerably and thus makes the idea of having your home powered by a deep hole in the ground a far off possibility.
             The fight over big businesses taking over the environment and its resources have brought about the harsh reality of wildlife displacement and extinction
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