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Originally Posted by jplinville
Sometimes I feel the same about you...get over yourself and either join the conversation or move on.
Layback has answered the question about Enhanced geothermal quite well...explained the process quite well.
Tell me how the process is much different than fracking for gas. Both have been the causes of localized earthquakes, both have fluids forced at high pressures to further crack the rocks below the surface, yet one has got the treehuggers in an uproar, and the other is a welcomed form of electrical generation.
what's the difference?
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One is hole drilled into gas bearing rock, the other is not. Geothermal does not use polluting chemicals to remove heat from the ground. Fracking does use polluting chemicals and can result in flammable gases mirating into water supplies. Fracking involves large amounts of pressure which has caused earthquakes in Ohio. Geothermal does not use high pressures to extract heat. I don't where you got the idea it does.
If someone else has explained this quite well why do you need to still ask the difference?