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by worik 1525 days ago
What an inadequate website for such bold claims.

Here in New Zealand we found that geothermal is not "non polluting". There are a lot of unforeseen consequences with bringing deep water to the surface.

Still much better than nuclear that makes our children pay for current consumption or coal that means we are paying for our ancestors consumption....
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worik 1525 days ago
A wee bit of search foo....

https://nypost.com/2022/03/10/inside-the-mind-blowing-plan-t...

https://news.mit.edu/2016/paul-woskov-explores-new-path-thro...

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robbedpeter 1525 days ago
Iterating over past failures is how progress happens. There will be negative consequences from anything, but the reason for geothermal is that it doesn't have the negative consequences fossil fuels do, and it's cleaner than wind or solar. Also, I'll take localized pollution over global disruption any day.
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worik 1525 days ago
How is geothermal cleaner than wind or solar?

In Taupo, if my memory serves, the geothermal fluid was found to have high concentrations of arsenic (?) that was seriously polluting rivers.

The subsidence of surrounding land was a problem too

They developed ways of re-injecting the fluid into the well which they hoped would fix both problems, and time will tell.

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