15 points wffurr 2 days ago 6 comments
bell-cot 32 minutes ago | parent
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?
mlfreeman 20 minutes ago | parent
All I can think of are supervillains in land based volcanoes not underwater ones
tomrod 14 minutes ago | parent
The Incredibles did it second, and almost certainly there is a Bond Villian or knockoff Bond show that did it.
oersted 2 minutes ago | parent
Fiat Cliche :)
Some tropes become only known from their parodies, and they lead to other parodies.
gaiagraphia 8 minutes ago | parent
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?
h4kor 5 minutes ago | parent
βehemoth incoming