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garbageoverflow··on The time has finally come for geothermal energy
I was wondering how feasible it would be to reuse abandoned oil pumps for geothermal energy. A closed loop system [1] would probably be the most appropriate, with energy generation by spinning of a turbine by steam that gets recycled. I don't have the expertise and was wondering if someone can share a bit of knowledge with the rest of us.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-loop_geothermal

garbageoverflow··on Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea
If it were a WYSIWYG editor, there'd be previews for images. But it seems like it's just syntax highlighting for textareas. Nice project either way, but false advertising.
garbageoverflow··on Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?
interested in the article. would you like to share a link?
garbageoverflow··on Let yourself be monitored: EU governments to agree on Chat Control
EU would just force the client to do client-side scanning. But then again, if the client is open-source: fork, compile, repeat.
garbageoverflow··on Let yourself be monitored: EU governments to agree on Chat Control
Afraid of the rising alternative parties, the current power structures seek to forever freeze their power in time by passing authoritarian laws. Sadly, they only way to end this it by massively voting alternative parties no matter the cost.
garbageoverflow··on UK government surveilling social media of teaching assistants
Are surveillance cameras really surveilling?
garbageoverflow··on Wealth shown to a pixel scale (2021)
I think a less radical idea would be to, once and for all, force all billionaires to pay their fair share of taxes and then use the amount they paid extra to solve some of the worlds problems.

I didn't do the math so I don't really know what could be done with such sums.

garbageoverflow··on Ask HN: How can I meaningfully object to WhatsApp processing of my information?
Please also share this with us when they respond.
garbageoverflow··on Server-side rendering is a better choice for many applications (2020)
Sorry, could you point me to the piece of code that requests all comments via an API and renders them accordingly?
garbageoverflow··on Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskin
Would you happen to also know what the Vivaldi source code contains then?
garbageoverflow··on Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskin
I don't think Vivaldi is open source. But if Brave's features are so bad that you're willing to switch to an closed source browser, why not switch to Firefox?
garbageoverflow··on Tiny Awards for Small Websites
I loved this! I'm itching to see the results for "Tiny Awards for Small Websites with a ton of unnecessary scripts and trackers". Oh wait, they're already listed on this site.
garbageoverflow··on Authoritarianism Keeps Surging in Western “Free Democracies”
But it seems that they're causing some trouble for the government if they're being targeted. Maybe their conspiracy theories contain some truth after all.
garbageoverflow··on Mormon whistleblower says his church is a “clandestine hedge fund”
An exception being Microsoft, who is forced by the US government to keep bugs in their platforms :-)
garbageoverflow··on Millennials Are Doing Just Fine
http://archive.today/NiCE8
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http://archive.today/C3Bo5
garbageoverflow··on America Is Back in the Factory Business
https://archive.ph/pPK7U