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basalt's avatar

Thank you! (And in case I’ve given the opposite impression, I have only good things to say about my Works in Progress editors)

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Aron Roberts's avatar

Thanks, Duarte & Francisco, for sharing Tom Ough's post on advanced geothermal approaches.

While Tom's writing focused on some of the wilder, more speculative possibilities, he does also briefly discuss the nearer-term, fracking-based methods that the US DoE is helping fund and Shell is exploring. As such, I was surprised that he didn't come across, or if he did, choose not to mention, the fracking-based, enhanced geothermal approach that Fervo Energy has taken.

Their work is producing electricity today, and they've attracted some highly credible partners, including Devon Energy and Google:

https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/google-fervo-geothermal-energy-partnership/

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