124: Geothermal… Boom!(?)
Still To Be Determined
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Geothermal Power With Mechanical Drilling
There are countries that have basically said we're pausing all exploration drilling on this because holy crap, it caused massive earthquakes. But they're drilling in regions like you talked about where there's tectonic activity and you're kind of triggering it. If you could drill a hole 10 kilometers down, 20 kilometers down in the middle of Iowa where there's no risk of a tectonic plate shifting? It's a very different ballgame. And as they start doing this and proving out that, yes, this is totally safe, don't panic. More people will want to get on this.
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