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Re:Utah's hottest new power source is 15k feet below the ground by amarcheschi on Saturday September 06, 2025 @05:59PM (#45153260)
At least in Tuscany - where there is a cluster of geothermal power plants creating 1/3 of the region electricity (it should reach 40% in a few years) - they had to invent special filters to lower the emission of mercury and hydrogen sulfide https://www.enelgreenpower.com/stories/articles/2024/10/geot...

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

Re:Utah's hottest new power source is 15k feet below the ground by sarchertech on Saturday September 06, 2025 @08:02PM (#45154009)
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 (#45154624)
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...