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There was an interesting article a little while ago about those sorts of challenges in a New Zealand town which started to 'use up' its volcanic activity throug
by leggomylibro 9y ago
There was an interesting article a little while ago about those sorts of challenges in a New Zealand town which started to 'use up' its volcanic activity through power generation and just good old runaway private use of the 'free' hot water:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/plugging-in-to-a-volcano-geothermal-power-and-the-science-that-enables-it/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/plugging-in-to-a-vol...
- jgamman 9y agoyeah - you gotta manage the extraction. think of it as heat mining/fishing. you want a rate of extraction just less than the replenishment rate or else you screw up the reservoir.