At least if you live in the Western half of the US. Enhanced geothermal is awesome, but you are still somewhat limited by the availability of heat at depth, at least until we develop low-cost ways of drilling deeper!

Geothermal needs permitting reform also!

What's the most seismically active place in California? It's around the Calistoga geothermal energy project 😬

People should read about aluminum smelting in Iceland to get an idea of what is possible.

Can we defuse the Yellowstone supervolcano yet?

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It’s awesome where the resources are favorable, which does not include “everyone”.

I'm kind of over energy. And even global warming. Like... it's solved, right? All other things being equal, nobody is going to dig another coal mine or build another coal fired plant over installing solar, wind or geothermal. Maybe you can talk about transitioning faster, but... eh. And I think the effects of global warming will be interesting to see as the wagon pushes us forward even as we get off of the accelerator and those issues and how we deal with them will be interesting. But right now, stories about global warming and the transition to clean energy are just not interesting to me. For whatever that is worth. Not much I imagine.

Geothermal is great and the speed of deployment matters if you care about climate change. So this plus a whole bunch of other clean energy, transmission

On the west coast. Does nothing east of the rockies.

Yes it does We can build them on former oil sites too. And near cities too

Permitting bill the Senate is considering has lots of great geothermal provisions that make this reality more possible.

They have been trying to do more Geothermal in the Rhine valley for ages. I am big fan, but it is actually way more difficult than I would have expected.

I would look into the history of The Geysers in Northern CA, the largest in the world. This so-called advanced geothermal isn't admitting to a few important details, and I'm pretty sure someone is fudging the math and geology with a lot of money: ie deeper gets very spendy very quickly. Not something to brag about. Corrosion is major problem! The Geysers pumps about 11M gallons per day of treated wastewater down into the ground. Why? (1500MW installed went down to about 350 iirc... now about 950MW... My water bill is 3x my electrical from PG&E... they built The Geysers.

It would take Progressives literally HOURS to come up with talking points to oppose unlimited clean energy.

Geothermal is high risk low reward. Only the US has the ability to do this kind of expensive research and iteration

I hope this isn't Fusion Redux

Am I right in understanding the building pictured is a single 33MW geoblock and that you need 30 facilities like that per GW?

Honestly google is pretty goated for this and inventing the transformer etc etc etc

There’s a geothermal heating scheme in Southampton UK. In the middle of the city near a shopping centre, so it’s easy to pipe heat local to customers (shopping centre, swimming pool, a few thousand homes). I think up front cost was high, but it’s been running for 40 years now.

More economically than "advanced" (whatever your favorite alternative might be) ? Ocean Thermal is nice, but like Geothermal it's stationary. Wind is okay but fragile. Solar is somewhat less than 50% nice -- nights happen. Nukes are portable, which is why they get used in ships.

Definitely hard to do at scale, but where possible it's better than wind and solar with its reliability.

Big time @TimMLatimer

Dems will find a way to fight against permitting it. So they can raise $$$ for the fight. And create NGOs that take govt money to fight against progress.

They can “make it work” if they bury the costs and make taxpayer pay for it. If the ratepayer has to pay no way

They can. And it makes your obsession with nuclear look rediculous.

wait for fusion

Agreed. It’s an exciting technology for reliable energy.

Just need those darn transmission lines.

BUT LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO KRYPTON!!!

My impression is that Fervo doesn't have home run potential in terms of price, but Quaise does with their energy drill potentially reaching really hot rock

Iceland.

Using tech advancements in drilling from fracking to make more affordable firm power that can be donepst places...is cool Hope the learning curve for this is as good as other clean energy, could be amazing

1) fission 2) solar 3) we’re good.

Nodding to scale is kind of like “Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?” Scale has been the main challenge of much energy tech. Hell, it's kept many technologies across many industries from being economically viable. W/o scale, tech is just a science project.

This is really pretty exciting. I wish then the best of luck