Our future is bleak. With the increase of global warming, the Earth’s temperature will rise, resulting in an environment that will feel dry, hot, and cloudy. To survive this environmental challenge, we will need a vast, reliable energy source that lasts thousands of years. Concurrently with the increase in global temperatures, volcanic activity will also rise during this time of transformation. Volcanoes have enough energy to potentially power and run entire cities, and these volcanic hotspots could offer unlimited opportunity to satisfy our gross need for energy. We should tap into this infinite power through the steaming process used by geothermic turbines, especially if geothermal energy technology allows us to begin to drill directly into Earth’s magma. In addition to the immense power geothermal energy can offer, we can add on the energy harvested by thermionic generators, which operate using heat transfer and condensation between two plates of metal which obtain energy directly from heat.

To avoid the dangers posed by this new energy source, the projected city will float above the volcano, in between the pools of magma that ooze out of the shield volcano. The floating is accomplished by quantum trapping. The trapping occurs when a certain superconductor is cooled and placed above a magnet, the magnetic field bends around the superconductor and locks the material—and whatever it supports—in space. Magnetism not only provides support to the city, but also regulates how it performs, controlling transportation and even the climate.

Attraction occurs figuratively and literally. As the future volcanic city levitates, a number of other variables fascinate populations with attractive opportunities of economic growth, political separation, and ease of adaptability. These new cities will experience an independence unlike any before.