Re:Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
by sbierwagen on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @06:14PM
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Rock isn't very thermally conductive. Geothermal plants work great where the crust is thin, but for the rest of the planet you have to do a lot of drilling to get not much heat. https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/01/warm-and-fuzzy-on-geother...
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