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Re:Geothermal power is a climate moon shot beneath our feet by krona on Sunday March 02, 2025 @03:47PM (#43234885)
> favorably located

That's the problem, isn't it?

Re:Geothermal power is a climate moon shot beneath our feet by epistasis on Sunday March 02, 2025 @04:10PM (#43235150)
With enhanced geothermal, especially that being explored by Fervo, a massive fraction of locations on earth are opened up to favorable geothermal.

Fervo is actually drilling and producing energy today, and scaling the technology, using existing technologies. If Quaise is successful, it will only enhance what Fervo is already accomplishing, but we don't need the huge technical advance of Quaise to get a massive amount of geothermal energy on the grid.

The Volts podcast has been following Fervo over the past few years, and they have met and exceeded all their milestones so far. (Unlike, say, big fission or fusion startups)

https://www.volts.wtf/p/catching-up-with-enhanced-geothermal