glass-line

Glass Line

The bore hole is the conduit. The fiber is the sensor. The heat is the energy. The observation channel and the communication channel are the same physical object.

Position in ASI Lattice

                    ┌─────────────────┐
                    │  glass-bead-game │
                    │  (synthesis)     │
                    └────────┬────────┘
                             │
         ┌───────────────────┼───────────────────┐
         │                   │                   │
┌────────▼────────┐ ┌────────▼────────┐ ┌────────▼────────┐
│  world-hopping  │ │  bisimulation   │ │  triad-interleave│
│  (navigation)   │ │  (dispersal)    │ │  (scheduling)    │
└────────┬────────┘ └────────┬────────┘ └────────┬────────┘
         │                   │                   │
         └───────────────────┼───────────────────┘
                             │
                    ┌────────▼────────┐
                    │     gay-mcp      │
                    │  (coloring)      │
                    └────────┬────────┘
                             │
                    ┌────────▼────────┐
                    │     acsets       │
                    │  (data model)    │
                    └────────┬────────┘
                             │
                    ┌────────▼────────┐
                    │   glass-line     │  ← NEW: physical substrate
                    │  (substrate)     │
                    └─────────────────┘

Four Outputs From One Bore

Output	Mechanism	Maps To
Energy	Geothermal heat → turbine or heat exchange	DGX Spark cluster power + cooling
Communication	Glass fiber in bore casing	Low-latency backhaul for hamming swarm
Sensing	Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) via Rayleigh/Brillouin scattering	Real-time thermal gradient monitoring
Materials	Brine extraction (lithium, rare earths)	Hardware supply chain (Cornwall model)

Schema

@present SchGlassLine(FreeSchema) begin
  Bore::Ob
  Fiber::Ob
  Sensor::Ob
  Well::Ob

  # A bore contains fibers and connects to wells
  contains::Hom(Bore, Fiber)
  taps::Hom(Bore, Well)

  # A fiber is simultaneously a sensor and a communication channel
  senses::Hom(Fiber, Sensor)
  communicates::Hom(Fiber, Fiber)  # self-referential: the medium IS the message

  # Attributes
  Depth::AttrType
  Temperature::AttrType
  Wavelength::AttrType
  Trit::AttrType

  depth::Attr(Bore, Depth)
  thermal_gradient::Attr(Well, Temperature)
  wavelength::Attr(Fiber, Wavelength)     # 1550nm C-band for telecom, 1064nm for DTS
  trit::Attr(Bore, Trit)                  # GF(3) coloring of physical sites
end

DTS (Distributed Temperature Sensing)

The fiber IS the sensor. No separate instruments needed.

Technique          Resolution    Range     Mechanism
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Raman DTS          1m spatial    10km      Anti-Stokes/Stokes ratio
Brillouin OTDR     1m spatial    50km      Frequency shift ∝ temperature
Rayleigh OFDR      1mm spatial   70m       Phase-sensitive backscatter

For a geothermal bore (typically 2-5km depth):

• Raman DTS at 1550nm: continuous thermal profile of entire bore
• Same fiber carries 100Gbps+ telecom in separate wavelength band (WDM)
• Temperature data streams to DuckDB via MQTT → glass-line sensor table

Site Selection Criteria

-- Optimal co-location: geothermal gradient + fiber trunk + compute
SELECT site, geothermal_gradient_c_per_km,
       distance_to_fiber_trunk_km,
       distance_to_compute_facility_km,
       (geothermal_gradient_c_per_km * 10
        - distance_to_fiber_trunk_km
        - distance_to_compute_facility_km * 2) AS score
FROM candidate_sites
WHERE geothermal_gradient_c_per_km > 30  -- minimum viable gradient
  AND distance_to_fiber_trunk_km < 50
ORDER BY score DESC;

Known Candidate Regions

Region	Gradient	Fiber	Compute	Notes
Portland/Cascadia	40-60°C/km	Major hub (NWAX)	Existing warehouse	Your DGX cluster
Cornwall UK	35-40°C/km	Subsea cables	New facility	Lithium co-extraction proven
Reykjavik	100+°C/km	IRIS submarine	Verne Global	Already operational
Nevada/Great Basin	50-80°C/km	Las Vegas trunk	Switch datacenters	BLM land available
Pennsylvania mines	Variable	Northeast corridor	Planned 13GW DCs	Abandoned mine cooling

Integration With Hamming Swarm

Each physical glass-line site becomes a world in the 26-letter mesh:

# A glass-line site binds to a world wallet
class GlassLineSite:
    def __init__(self, letter: str, bore_depth_m: float, fiber_count: int):
        self.letter = letter
        self.world_wallet = WORLD_WALLETS[letter]
        self.bore_depth = bore_depth_m
        self.fiber_count = fiber_count
        self.dts_stream = None  # MQTT topic for thermal data

    def bind_to_swarm(self, mesh: HammingSwarm):
        """Physical site joins the multisig mesh"""
        # The site's thermal output backs the world's DeFi position
        # Geothermal energy production → staking yield analogy:
        # constant baseload output, no intermittency,
        # 90%+ capacity factor (like Amnis stAPT stability)
        mesh.register_site(self.letter, self)

    def sense(self) -> dict:
        """DTS reading from fiber"""
        # Returns temperature profile along entire bore
        # This IS the observation — no separate measurement needed
        return self.dts_stream.latest()

Energy Economics

Geothermal LCOE:    $0.04-0.08/kWh (baseload, 90%+ capacity factor)
Grid power (US avg): $0.12/kWh
DGX Spark (3 nodes): ~6kW sustained
Annual energy cost:
  Grid:        6kW × 8760h × $0.12 = $6,307/yr
  Geothermal:  6kW × 8760h × $0.05 = $2,628/yr
  Savings:     $3,679/yr (~58%)

Cooling savings (ground loop vs HVAC):
  ~40% reduction in cooling energy
  Additional $1,500-2,500/yr savings

Total annual savings: ~$5,000-6,000/yr
  = ~700 APT/yr at current price
  > 5x the entire DeFi yield (10.8 APT/yr)

The physical substrate dominates the digital yield.

GF(3) Triad

Trit	Layer	Role
-1	glass-line	Physical substrate (sensing, energy, materials)
0	acsets + gay-mcp	Data model + coloring (digital structure)
+1	glass-bead-game	Synthesis (emergent coordination)

Conservation: the physical (-1) grounds the digital (0) which enables the emergent (+1).

Monitoring

# Stream DTS data to DuckDB
mosquitto_sub -t "glassline/+/dts" | \
  duckdb ~/i.duckdb -c "
    INSERT INTO glass_line_dts
    SELECT * FROM read_json('/dev/stdin', auto_detect=true);"

# Thermal gradient alert
duckdb ~/i.duckdb -c "
  SELECT site, depth_m, temp_c,
         temp_c - LAG(temp_c) OVER (ORDER BY depth_m) AS gradient
  FROM glass_line_dts
  WHERE site = 'portland'
  ORDER BY depth_m DESC LIMIT 20;"

# Energy production vs DeFi yield comparison
duckdb ~/i.duckdb -c "
  SELECT
    'geothermal' AS source, annual_kwh * 0.05 AS annual_usd,
    annual_kwh * 0.05 / 7.5 AS annual_apt  -- at $7.50/APT
  FROM glass_line_sites
  UNION ALL
  SELECT 'defi_yield', 10.84 * 7.5, 10.84
  FROM (SELECT 1);"

Related Skills

• plurigrid-asi-integrated — parent lattice
• glass-bead-game — synthesis layer above
• acsets — data model for bore/fiber/sensor schema
• defillama-api — DeFi yield comparison
• duckdb-ies — simultaneity_surfaces view for co-temporal sensing
• warehouse-network — DGX cluster coordination
• gx10-offload — compute offload to cluster nodes