Badlands Contour Model | The New Harvey House

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As fossil fuels began to run out while energy loads only climbed, explorations into other means of power became advantageous. Geothermal energy was traditionally a source of power that required perfectly located underground aquifers that would superheat water to create steam. An unfortunate limit that made geothermal rare, at least until engineers began to ponder why they couldn’t located these aquifers anywhere they wished. This is the question that lead to Enhanced Geothermal. A technology where an open landscape is fracked open and pumped full of water making geothermal possible in nearly any location. While this would solve the growing energy crisis, there are always consequences.

Fracking and pumping the South Dakota Badlands full of water, opened up unforeseen networks of underground cavitation. Engineers lost control of the water and it began reacting with calcium in the limestone and sandstone landscape. Soon geysers began to sprout in rapid succession and water trapped underground was let loose upon the land. Significant parts of the central United States flooded over in a shocking return of the Western Interior Seaway, an ocean that hundreds of millions of years ago spread across the United states.

Geological concepts such as geyser growth and the return of great seas were once reactions that took nature millions of years. Today humanity through the use of advanced technologies can both force and accidently cause equivalent changes to the geological world in a timespan of not millions of years, but single years. This is a division in world history, the dividing line between geological epochs, the previous halocene, and the current Anthropocene.