Not a geophysicist but I feel extremely confident based solely on Fermi estimates, that humans do not have the capability to extract that much heat from the Earth even if we tried our best for thousands of years.

Never underestimate humanities ability to consume resources.

They thought the US had enough land that it would take 20 generations to settle (it took 2).

That being said, we should probably still do it. Seems like a slower death route.

population density is nowhere near efficient levels in most of the US though

Our willingness to do things in non-efficient ways is one of the ways we consume so many resources.

It is not possible. It is not even a millionth of the way to possible.

It is, instead, cheap concern trolling. Worry instead about money diverted, from building out wind and solar that actually address looming climate disaster, to chase wills-o-th'-wisp.

Wind and solar are not a real solutions and would require massive capacity overbuild.

We need to focus on base load replacement, not intermittent “feel good” sources.

Wind and solar will get massive capacity overbuild. Cheaply. When the time is right, storage will, too, and not before.

You seem sincerely misled. If you consult more reliable sources, you can cut past the propaganda machine, on this and on other topics.

There has always been plenty of money available to people willing to seek to mislead you in this way. It is absolutely legal to publish falsehoods, even in what looks like legitimate media. People who lie to you about X will happily lie to you about Y.

It is embarrassing to learn you have allowed yourself to be misled, but they are often very, very good at it. The US was fooled into invading Iraq, as in previous wars.

I worked for a large regulated utility and have been in the energy industry for the better part of a decade.

I am familiar with the technology and the financial incentives that drive utility decisions.

Efficient energy and distributed customer-owned generation scare the shit out of them. The game utilities play is to build/own as many assets as the regulators allow and earn that sweet regulated return.

They absolutely LOVE the idea of overbuilding generation!

I’m not saying climate change is or isn’t real, I’m simply saying that corporate propaganda is leveraging climate change fear to push us into a product that primarily benefits them, not us.