Engineering · Energy & Power Engineering
A topic within Energy & Power Engineering, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Engineering.
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United States Department of Energy
Argues geothermal's US potential is held back less by geology than by drilling cost, and quantifies how far enhanced geothermal systems would need to bring that cost down to compete broadly.
Jefferson W. Tester et al.
Argues that engineering fracture networks into hot dry rock, rather than relying on naturally permeable reservoirs, could supply a meaningful share of US baseload electricity, and works out the drilling and reservoir costs that would make it competitive.
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