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At issue is what we are expected to call most of these things. Home heating and utility-scale electrical power generation are different in kind, not just scale

• dredmorbius 4y ago
  Before the specific language can be agreed on, having a sense of what the distinct phenomena are. I do agree that present usage is often vague and similar terms are used to describe wildly different applications. "Residential" or "end-use" vs. "regional" or "grid scale" are among the differentiators I'm familiar with. Marketing is another driver of much confusion, as selling a ground-loop heat pump sounds much more impressive when described as "geothermal heat pump". The latter is ... stretching definitions at the least, if not openly misleading.