Oil and Gas - The Next Generation of Geothermal Energy?

Geothermal energy is currently a niche field that doesn't receive enough investment capital to make meaningful progress. What if all the talent that made the shale boom possible were refocused on geothermal? How long do you think it would take before geothermal suddenly became more economic than wind and solar? It took the US oil and gas industry less than a decade to commercialize horizontal drilling and fracking, cut its cost in half by optimizing its design and deployment. The United States will be the biggest producer of crude oil in the history of planet Earth by 2019 - something nobody thought remotely possible in 2010.