[ZeroGravitas]

> Geothermal has the power density and scalability of fossil fuels

This has the same vibe as hydrogen cars. Don't buy battery EVs, wait a decade and buy hydrogen cars that will be just as good as ICE!

Or, I can just buy an EV today that's already better than ICE.

[davedx]

We never know which tech will be commercially successful until we try

[ZeroGravitas]

That's fine, just announce it as "we have X, Y and Z solutions to the problems caused by fossil fuels and are investigating A to see if it's even better".

Don't take the Bill Gates route of talking down existing, proven solutions to talk up your speculative investment in some unproven tech or the fossil fuel approach of funding weird future research aa an excuse to spend lots of time talking about how amazing fossil fuels are.