I must admit I also have been reading a book by Bill Bryson, or should I say.. I am still reading this big book. It's so big that it will take a while to read it out. Not only because it has so much pages, but also because some of the information is very dazzling to you. It will take you a few times reading before you understand what is written in it, even though it is written very well and understanding to the common human. From time to time I need to re-read the page. Luckily I fall asleep from time to time, so than I am forced to re-read it again the next day.

Anyway, this isn't a commercial for the book, but an exploration to a piece of knowledge we all use as if it's so self-explanatory. In one of the first chapters he says that he asked the same question: How do we know that the earth exists out of so and so much layers and the core will be this and that? How can we draw pictures of it even? Has anyone been there? Have we actually cut the earth half through to see what's in it? The answer is no. Nobody has ever dug so deep to figure out if it was true. We perhaps have tried to measure it with all types of equipment. Metal detectors perhaps, or magnetic field detectors. The rest is common knowledge. Theories of what's possibly there.

Can we even dig so deep? Well that is a good question. For example, how deep could one possibly dig in his/her garden. Take away the possibility of hitting a power or waterline ofcourse and say that the person has all the equipment to dig in the hardest stone. How deep could we possibly go?

I play a game called MineCraft. On a side-note, this game comes close to what I wanted to make in a game myself. But, it doesn't let you go deeper than a certain level. They made an impassable layer of so called 'bedrock' which is.. well impassable.. you cannot dig it away (apart from using cheats or an editor, but let's set that aside) and it defeats the purpose of finding the core of the earth. Oh wait.. that was a game. You do however come across numbers of different types of sand, stone, metals and minerals and also a good portion of water and lava.

No but my example was perhaps a little crazy, but it made me wonder: Did anyone ever try? Did anyone ever try digging really deep in his/her garden, you would say? Well perhaps.. or just in general.. did anyone ever try to dig deeper than deep. Deeper than ever tried before? I mean.. we do things like looking for Oil in the sea, why don't we try digging deeper as well, might find out a lot about our past, about the earth.

While I am writing this article, I try also to find some other writers to back my theory up. So I just found this person writing about exactly the same subject. He has actually tried to dig deep in his parents garden with his friends. He came as deep as two meters and had the problem of water running in. He says that one time in our lives we wonder if we can dig to the core of the earth.. or to China.. if you like. Heh.. that's something they also say.. if you want to go to China you can either fly or dig through the earth. But that doesn't go for everybody on this earth. I am not quite sure if I in Norway would still end up in China on the other side. Also.. do you dig right through the core of the earth? Or from the left or right side of the core through to the other side, that way avoiding the troubles at the middle of the earth?

In this interesting article I now also read about the deepest mine in the world "Tau Tona Mine" that is on 3,6km deep and reaches a temperature of 55 degrees celsius.

This brings me to another very interesting subject in this blog. We have free energy right in our garden! We just need to dig deep enough. At least a kilometer I suppose. It's going to be a big job to do so. The first problem you will face (apart from evt cables or rocks) will be groundlevel water. This water will always run into the lowest point, meaning your digging hole. So you will need some big pumps. Think of the Discovery program about digging for gold, they were continiously pumping water away in the middle of Alaska.

When you've come deep enough to have some sort of temperature, you will have to have some sort of equipment that transports this heat towards your house.. or otherwise converts it into power.

Why put time in nuclear power if the earth is giving us everything what we need. Wind, Sun, earth heat, not to forget water. And perhaps we even getting more than that. I believe there is also a phenomenom called Big Bang energy in outer space, that comes falling down to earth. That is at least what a friend of mine told me. An energy from the old Big Bang theory, that, if captured, would give us unending power enough for the whole humanity. The discovery and the execution of this lays in the hands of Tesla. I have tried to search a resource that would defend this case, but to date I haven't found anything about the Tesla big bang power antenna yet. The only thing was a mention about it's existence on wikipedia. Tesla: "Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe."

If we can dig for oil. Why do we bother with that? We can use the money to dig for the free hot air from the earth, or perhaps even lava. Lava is perhaps a little unstable to play with and we haven't discovered anything that can actually contain it, but it is certainly something we should put attention on. Why look for the simple way out on things; Why burn our forests, dig for oil, and destroy our possibility to survive even further. We live on an earth with loads of possibilities. As long as we make the right choices, we can come much further. I believe that we are allowed to make use of the earth, as long as it's just for us to survive, not to harvest and store away. This harvesting and storing away is the thing we are doing right now. We exploit and abuse our world that is keeping us safe.
And the real question is whether and for how long the earth can keep us safe. If we keep on destroying our own planet, will it keep us safe, or will it keep itself safe?  With the ever getting bigger nature disasters I feel that mother earth is trying to keep herself safe, rather than us safe. It will protect life.. but at a different level. Life is also everything else than a human.

But I am dwindling off from my main subject, the digging into the earth. Or was my main point perhaps that we have free energy everywhere around us and that we should put our time, effort and money into developing something that will help us the years to come (and that of our children) than to use it on depleting the earth of it's limited resources that could also be used for different things than endlessly burning it up in cars and the like. Instead of using it for all types of Petroleum, we could actually try to safe it for the other uses. You might wonder, what other uses does it have? Well there is a long list of other products in our daily life that are made with this same oil, for example: detergents, photographic film, plastics, food additives, medicines, clothes, make-up, dyes, paint, fertilizers and candles.
What if we would run out of oil? It will just mean so much more than just not being able to drive your car anymore!

Hmm I just wrote my blog about two different subjects or categories: the endless discussion on innovative energy and the exploration of unanswered-answered questions.
In the coming time I plan to write more of these blogs that will make you think about certain subjects from a different perspective.