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The extraordinary potential value of enhanced geothermal power

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Hydrothermal Power Plants

The way these plants work is like sticking two straws in the ground. You're blowing right water down into these cracks and stores of hot water. And consequently forcing hot water and or steam up through the other straw. So that's traditional and it is, at least in the US and in most places, largely tapped out. There just isn't enough of it really to play a big role in decarbonization.

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