[stupendousyappi]

The benefits described sound contradictory to me. If you're removing enough heat to reduce the likelihood of Yellowstone erupting, you're removing enough to reduce the power output of the plant. Perhaps there's way to balance those two outcomes, but I know that other geothermal plants have sucked their heat reservoirs dry over decades of use. I suppose you could do a better job of matching the rate of heat extraction of the rate of natural regeneration, but I imagine that would enormously reduce the potential output of the plant, and that's not an issue this paper addresses.

[evan_]

On the other hand, preventing Yellowstone from erupting would be a pretty good outcome by itself, and getting a few decades (centuries?) of free power in the exchange is just a bonus…