January 1st, 2034, The Pacific Ocean somewhere near Hawaii: It had been ten years since Elon Musk realized colonizing Mars was not the answer to his deep concern regarding the survival of humanity. When his mind searched for an alternative answer, he took notice of how the people of Iceland had solved their energy problem.
Faced with a difficult climate and minimal natural resources, instead of looking to the radiant energy of the sun or trying to capture capricious wind energy, the Ice Landers looked underneath the ocean floor. The island’s waters were in a volcanic “Rift Zone,” and by drilling a few thousand meters below the ocean floor, the geo-environment was so hot that exposed water would immediately become superheated steam. If the rising steam was channeled through an electricity-producing turbine, carbon-free energy could be generated.
Inconsistent windmills or solar panels, which by definition are nonproductive 12 hours each day and useless on cloudy days, were not the answer to the need for dependable carbon-free energy—neither had the reliability or scalability to get the job done. Nuclear energy had the potential, but as Chornobyl and the war in Ukraine had demonstrated, nuclear power plants can, in the wrong hands, be a disaster.
Geothermal energy was the solution to Earth’s carbon-free energy need, but Musk saw the energy source as something more, the foundation on which answering the question of how to preserve humanity could be built.
Musk could not repeat his previous mistake. Tesla was a financial success, but Musk had put the cart in front of the horse. By not ensuring the availability of an unlimited carbon-free renewable energy source, mass production and use of affordable electric cars were limited.
To save humanity, Musk had to develop an alternative unlimited energy source, and Geothermal energy fit the bill. He leveraged all his experience, Tesla-derived AI, and formidable know-how to develop the new energy source. Billions in private investor money flowed and trillions in profits measured success.
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Almost the entire American West Coast seaboard ocean qualified as geothermal-rich “Rift Zones,” and these resources were developed. Musk became incalculably rich, and as renewable geothermal energy became readily available, his dream of affordable electric cars became a reality.
But it was at an undisclosed ocean-floor location near Hawaii that Musk’s vision of preserving humanity was being realized. During the same ten years Geothermal energy was developed, Musk had simultaneously worked with the American government to build a modern version of a seafloor Atlantis.
Hundreds of meters below the ocean’s surface, all the essentials needed to perpetuate life were readily available. Sea Water {H2O} was ubiquitous, and under Musk’s intense oversight, desalination had been perfected, thus providing water {H2O} for human consumption and multiple other essential purposes.
Other life-essential nutrients, Nitrogen, phosphorous, magnesium, and iron, were also readily available. In the absence of the sun’s life-giving energy rays, geothermal-produced energy was converted into sun-like energy waves. Plant roots were bathed in a soulless, nutrient-rich water-like soup, and the plants captured the geothermal-produced radiant energy by combining water {H2O} from the soup with carbon dioxide {CO2} to create energy-storing carbon-based molecules. As a side product, breathable oxygen {O2} was also produced. The plants used the captured energy to absorb other root soup nutrients and convert them into “amino acids”, the building blocks of protein. The essential amino acid lysine is not abundantly produced by plants, and without it, human life cannot be supported. This issue was addressed by harvesting edible fish and cultivating undersea chickens that laid lysine-rich eggs.
Humanity was sustained by consuming fish, plants, and eggs. The energy required for human growth was derived from using breathed in oxygen {O2} to, in effect, burn the food’s carbon molecules, creating the byproducts of water {H2O} and carbon dioxide {CO2}; Products green plants can again use to capture the Geothermal created sun-like energy rays and continue the cycle of life. To perpetuate the cycle all human and animal waste products were repurposed into the watery soup that provided the nutrients for Atlantis’s fruit and vegetable gardens.
Using Geothermal produced energy, water {H2O} was split into energy-storing hydrogen{H2} and oxygen{O2}. The energy-rich hydrogen was then used to make powerful carbon-free batteries, and the oxygen was harvested for human breathing.
If a super volcano eruption or a nuclear winter ever blotted out the life-giving rays of the sun, the new Atlantis would continue to thrive, and the ocean-floor Geothermal wells would continue to supply power to land-based survivors. Even a nuclear bomb electromagnetic pulse {EMP} would have no effect as the gamma rays and the harmful electronic particles would be absorbed by the sea. The threat of assault by foreign enemies had been addressed. The new Atlantis was protected by an impenetrable fleet of AI-programmed Hydrogen-battery-powered armed submersibles. Musk’s satellite-based ‘“Star Link” would preserve the internet and keep communication lines open.
It is only a matter of time before Geothermal energy becomes the world’s dominant energy source and an underwater city becomes a reality. The technology is already available, and the premise’s evidence-based logic carries an unstoppable inertia.
In the future, there is a very real possibility of a man-made Armageddon or a natural extinction event. In this piece, Elon Musk was highlighted as the person who could use innovation, modern technology, and Geothermal Energy to create a safe harbor from these catastrophic possibilities, a place where humanity would be preserved.
But if it is not Musk’s destiny to be the architect of this future, the world should hope the driving force to Geothermal Energy dominance and a new Atlantis is an entity with Musk-like intentions. If not, the world’s future will end up in the hands of elite socialists, totalitarian dictators, the world’s military-industrial complexes, the major fossil fuel companies, and the green energy conglomerates. None of which care about preserving even a shred of humanity, and all of which would populate their version of Atlantis with the worst this world could offer.
