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I would love the idea geothermal, I'm just not aware of a lot of places in the US that can take advantage of it :/ Iceland on the other hand....
by exabrial 19d ago
I would love the idea geothermal, I'm just not aware of a lot of places in the US that can take advantage of it :/
Iceland on the other hand....
- pstuart 19d agoThere's a lot of development in leveraging fracking tech, Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS), as well as some other wild shit like using masers: https://newatlas.com/energy/quaise-newberry-volcano-marble-falls-hq-tour/ https://newatlas.com/energy/quaise-newberry-volcano-marble-f... There's plenty of geothermal in the US to be tapped into, we just need to invest more in it. It then becomes the perfect baseload utility.
- toomuchtodo 18d agoEnhanced geothermal systems could expand geothermal power generation - https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67204 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67204 - February 19th, 2026 Map: https://www.nlr.gov/docs/libraries/gis/high-res-images/geothermal-identified-hydrothermal-and-egs.jpg https://www.nlr.gov/docs/libraries/gis/high-res-images/geoth...