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Complexity – New Hope for Cleaner Energy

by Tim Kilpatrick on November 28, 2023
in Wicked Societal Challenges

Is clean, sustainable energy a few miles away?

Hot rock is everywhere, with temperatures rising hundreds of degrees Fahrenheit within the first few miles of the surface, … yet geothermal plants are built where naturally heated water can be easily tapped. 

Gregory Barber writes in Wired about a new “enhanced” geothermal system (EGS) built on wells drilled 7,000 feet down into completely dry, 375 degrees Fahrenheit, rock to create an artificial hot spring by pumping water into the well. The returned hot water drive turbines to create 2 to 3 megawatts of electricity. Enough to power a few thousand homes.

Pre-eighteenth-century mills were powered by wind and water wheels until the steam engine made in possible for factories to locate anywhere. EGSs show promise in creating clean, sustainable energy that may help address climate change.

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Our existential threat may not be AI, climate change, nor nuclear weapons, rather humans adding more complexity to the world than we can effectively manage. It already led to the collapse of every advanced society thus far.

We are adding complexity so fast that manual strategy cognition with 86 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections is not keeping up.

AI assisting with strategy cognition may be our best chance to keep up, achieve our complex goals, and address the wicked societal challenges of our day.

This is a discussion about AI, complexity and strategy cognition. – Tim Kilpatrick

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