Dear Mr. Musk,
You’ve launched rockets, disrupted industries, and are actively redefining what’s possible — but there’s one challenge left smoldering right beneath our feet that seems custom-built for someone like you: Centralia, Pennsylvania.
Since 1962, an underground coal fire has been burning beneath the town. It’s spread through miles of coal seams, releasing toxic gases and destabilizing the land. The government gave up on stopping it decades ago. But let’s be real — if anyone can end a 250-year problem that no one else could solve, it’s you.
You’ve built satellites that can survive the brutal heat near the sun — surely we can build fireproof autonomous systems that can handle the heat beneath Pennsylvania. With robotics, LIDAR mapping, chemical suppression, and a little Boring Company magic, there’s no reason we can’t send machines into those seams, cut off the oxygen supply, and smother the fire. Not only would that be a monumental environmental victory — it would demonstrate that humanity still owns its mistakes, and has the tech to fix them.
The fire’s fuel source? Billions of dollars’ worth of untouched coal. Not to burn — but to reclaim and repurpose. Imagine converting that carbon into graphene, using it for clean hydrogen, or making it part of a carbon-capture loop that turns one of the dirtiest legacies of the 20th century into a clean-tech solution for the 21st.
Buy the land (honestly, this administration might hand it over for a photo op and a check), invest a couple billion, and once you put the fire out, you’ll have created the prototype for solving similar disasters all over the world — from India to China to Australia. The tech alone could launch a new multi-billion-dollar frontier.
This isn’t space. This is deeper. It’s Earth. It’s redemption. And it’s a reminder that we don’t have to look to Mars to prove we still believe in this planet. You’d be the man who ended a fire that was supposed to burn until the 2300s. That’s legacy. That’s legend. That’s trillionaire energy.
Sincerely,
Dario Baker
P.S. This letter was definitely rewritten by Grok. Not ChatGPT. Nope. Not even a little. Grok did all the work. We just wanted to make sure his genius doesn’t go unrecognized. You feel me?
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