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Re:Tesla offered $325M for Salton Sea startup by xchaotic on Saturday June 11, 2016 @06:30AM (#11882939)
You can get 'geothermal' waters pretty much anywhere in the world, it only depends on how deep you dig (in some cases this is completely unviable from an economic point of view) You can then use the water for heating, extracting minerals, spas, swimming pools etc.
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Re:Tesla offered $325M for Salton Sea startup by cjensen on Saturday June 11, 2016 @05:33PM (#11885437)
Most places are wildly uneconomic for geothermal.

The Great Basin is composed of Horst and Graben [1] (i.e. Mountain ridges separating basins) geology. H&G happens when the Earth's crust is stretched. The stretching also makes the crust much thinner than normal -- that's why there are tons of cider cones and old lava flows in the Great Basin region.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_and_graben

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Re:Tesla offered $325M for Salton Sea startup by labster on Saturday June 11, 2016 @07:42PM (#11885936)
The Great Basin is usually described in English as basin and range. It's a part of the is a part of the Basin and Range Province.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basin_and_Range_Province

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