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Engineered geothermal does not rely on existing hot water sources. Rather, water is injected into the dry hot rocks that are much more common. Steam from recovered water drives turbines to produce electricity. Much of the water is recycled by re-injecting. The potentail looks very good for this technology.
Warm Globe: Google Invests $10 Million in Geothermal
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackIt’s sound very unlikely, that investing all this energy pushing the water into the system, will eventually produce enough energy to get back the energy lost from geothermal source.The idea seems to be very very inefficient. I hope that google knows what they are doing. Maybe for google it is just a marketing scheme.
10M to Google is a walk in the park. It’s an interesting idea and I hope it works out.
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