[conservatism_IS_compassion]

“7,000 feet underground, where rocks radiate heat from the earth’s molten core”

I’m sure if put to scale, 7,000 feet wouldn’t even be as deep as a dimple on a golf ball...a tad bit short of the Earth’s core.

Look at it this way:

1. If the earth’s core is hot enough to be molten Iron and other metals, it is way hotter than the surface.

2. If the core is always hotter than the surface, heat is always flowing from the core to the surface.

3. Anywhere on, or under, the surface of the earth where there is nothing to conduct heat from the earth’s core, will "radiate heat from the earth’s molten core.”

   And 7000 feet of earth’s crust is sufficient insulation to make the temperature at the earth’s surface (“normal” to us surface dwellers) distinctly cooler than the temperature over a mile closer to "the earth’s molten core.”

And don’t forget, according to our favorite scientist (and inventor of the INTERNET) the temperature of the earth’s core is "millions of degrees.” (thousands, millions - what’s three orders of magnitude when the issue is saving the earth?).

[lacrew]

Here are the learned words of the esteemed scientist, Algore:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGV7Dr2iDvU

He states that 2 kilometers down, the Earth is millions of degrees. Give that scholar a Nobel Prize.

As an aside, he starts out smugly stating that geothermal energy is relatively new. Again, he is wrong - its been used at large scale facilities since the 1920's.