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by megaman821 1070 days ago
Couldn't they just not inject as much water into the injection hole? Then presumably the steam hole would stop making steam.
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This sort of system has a kind of built-in storage. It can overproduce steam for a while, if needed, even if that level of steam production is not sustainable in steady state. This is nice for countering some short-term variability of other renewable sources, particularly solar.