Author here. What you describe would be nice, but it's literally not what's happening here. It turns out you can't just arbitrarily declare "we're setting up g

Author here. What you describe would be nice, but it's literally not what's happening here. It turns out you can't just arbitrarily declare "we're setting up geothermal here", as Bukele did - it's complex and susceptible to dangerous screwups. e.g. the LaGeo plant mentioned in the piece opened a new 95 megawatt well in June. That was the result of years of careful planning, and there's already concerns that it's screwing up the local groundwater - a serious concern, given a lot of the local villages around Berlin don't have running water and rely on the groundwater.