Re:America's Geothermal Breakthrough Could Unlock a 150-Giga...
by WarOnPrivacy on Sunday April 26, 2026 @02:03PM
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> It’s uneconomical in an already built out area or a non central planned economy
I mean, true. But it was new developments I had in mind for a neighborhood geo install.
Digging up streets to run distribution lines, running service drops to every existing house, installing a heat exchanger and valves in every house is astronomically expensive given the amount of energy used by a single residence.
If you’re building out a new neighborhood on a greenspace plot, installing the district heating/cooling piping is much cheaper since you’re already laying electric, water, sewer, and mane gas lines.