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Re:European Super Grid by foepys on Monday March 08, 2021 @01:21PM (#26389423)
The Swiss tried geothermal power at large scale but the initial tests caused two earthquakes of 3.5 and 3.4 respectively. They then stopped the project.

Maybe somebody else has examples of well running geothermal power plants but at least the Swiss are quite vary of them.

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Re:European Super Grid by jopsen on Monday March 08, 2021 @01:31PM (#26389555)
Iceland does lots of geothermal power.. indeed power intensive industries like aluminum refining favor Iceland due to low power cost.

Sure, it's hard to know how far geothermal in Iceland could scale..

But there is an active volcano, how much worse can it get? :)

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