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I don't understand why Japan doesn't make more use of geothermal power. There are numerous sources of geothermal power all over Japan but it's barely exploited
by fancyfredbot 4y ago
I don't understand why Japan doesn't make more use of geothermal power. There are numerous sources of geothermal power all over Japan but it's barely exploited at all.
- dr-detroit 4y ago[dead]
- thinkcontext 4y agoNo one has yet figured out how to scale it up.
- m4rtink 4y agoIIRC the output of the geothermal wells is often quite corrosive & possibly prone to clogging due to all the contained minerals. Not insurmountable but still complicates things.
- scythe 4y agoIceland is the geothermal poster child, which may cause this idea, since both countries are volcanic. But Japan's population density (330/km^2) is nearly 100 times larger than Iceland's (3.6/km^2). So the intensity of geothermal extraction must be correspondingly that much higher, which turns out to be impractical.