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Significant energy source found under US-Mexico border

• dplarson 2y ago
  > Geothermal energy source found in Presidio County, Texas Contrary to the clickbait title, the article included the key point in the first bullet point.
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• AtlasBarfed 2y ago
  I'm getting suspicious of the geothermal hype. Is there demonstrated competitiveness on LCOE basis with wind/solar? Lazard's report is basically spitballing the values. I think there is potential, but the fact that any sort of development basically goes through the oil/gas industry for their drilling makes me think that geothermal is just oil/gas plotting "don't deploy that wind/solar that is dirt cheap, waste money on this geothermal thing, and especially send us money to spin wheels in the dirt". I get that geothermal won't have intermittency, so that would be good at least.
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  • polotics 2y ago
    Geothermal may well have intermittency too, because of repeated instances of earthquake triggering though. http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/en/knowledge/things-to-know/geothermal-energy-earthquakes/geothermal-energy-and-induced-earthquakes/ http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/en/knowledge/things-to-know/geothe...