Re:Utah's hottest new power source is 15k feet below the ground
by sarchertech on Saturday September 06, 2025 @08:02PM
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The plants mentioned in the article are closed systems. They aren’t releasing steam into the atmosphere like the plants you’re referencing.
Re:Utah's hottest new power source is 15k feet below the ground
by lostlogin on Saturday September 06, 2025 @09:46PM
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I wish New Zealand did more of this.
We have a whole fleet of geothermal plants (15ish), making about 20% of our power. However the largest plant is only 160MW.
The impact in comparison to our other renewables seems fairly minimal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_power_in_New_Zealan...
I don't know if it's "no footprint" at all. For what I know, which is not much, but just what a person living here might know, there's a footprint that can be somehow managed. But I'm not an engineer