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Re:Geothermal power is a climate moon shot beneath our feet by mmooss on Sunday March 02, 2025 @03:59PM (#43235007)
If the full cost of carbon technologies was paid instead of so much being externalized, how competitive would these geothermal solutions be?
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Re:Geothermal power is a climate moon shot beneath our feet by ben_w on Sunday March 02, 2025 @04:04PM (#43235082)
Probably still not competitive — given that PV and wind are in most places already the two cheapest electrical sources, the remaining part of the power equation that geothermal can still help with is then one of either batteries or a global power grid.

(I really should turn my notes on global power grid into an actual blog post, so I can link to it, given how much it comes up).

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