[lazide]

Haha, no. In geothermal, you aren’t concentrating shit. Rather the opposite. You’re just moving it down the entropic slope/dissipating it.

And converting (lossily) the form (usually, unless you’re doing geothermal heat - even then you need a heat exchanger).

And it all boils down to ‘within an enclosed system’. With heat pumps the scope is typically within a hundred meters of itself.

With deep geothermal it’s 1+ mile underground and the surface.

There is useful power between 1+ mile down and the surface. There isn’t 100 meters away and the surface - unless you’re sitting on top of a hot spring anyway.

[foobarian]

> You’re just moving it down the entropic slope/dissipating it.

Agree on this, however

> In geothermal, you aren’t concentrating shit.

This one is a matter of opinion depending on scope so I'll disagree. You are concentrating it where it's useful. But overall system entropy goes up.

[lazide]

In geothermal, Heat is moved from where it is concentrated (underground) to where it is less concentrated (atmosphere).

There is no point I’m aware of in the process where something gets more hot than it started.

[foobarian]

Ground source heat pumps absolutely do concentrate heat. See e.g. https://edwardsroyalcomfort.com/how-warm-does-geothermal-hea..., typical ground temps are around 60F and system output is above 100F.