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In a glittering ballroom of St. Petersburg’s Borislowsky Hall, aristocrats, diplomats and wealthy patrons fill the air with applause as a charismatic American, Charles Montgomery, takes the podium. He announces a bold, almost fantastical plan to tap the planet’s inner heat—a concept that inspires awe and enthusiastic shouts from the assembled crowd. The room, lit by crystal chandeliers and echoing with the rustle of silk, becomes a stage for a vision that promises to reshape civilization.

Montgomery describes a massive shaft burrowed straight through the crust, where each thirty‑three meters would raise the temperature by a degree, eventually reaching the molten core. He envisions a gigantic city built around this conduit, its streets bathed in perpetual warmth, its factories powered without fuel, and its citizens living in an endless summer. Yet, amid the cheers, two engineers murmur doubts, questioning the feasibility and underlying assumptions of the venture. Their quiet skepticism hints at deeper conflicts that may shape the outcome of this daring enterprise.

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