Steven Novella

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1,536 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 4 Jul

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In the United States, it's 0.4%, so not much different.

So what two states make up 93% of our geothermal?

What are they?

Yep.

And Oregon?

And Nevada.

California and Nevada because they have young volcanic geology with the rest coming from Utah, Hawaii, Oregon, Idaho, and New Mexico.

Yeah, but still, that's relatively better, right?

But that's it.

So basically all of it's coming from California and Nevada with a little bit more from those other states I mentioned.

That's all about geology, right?

And this is basically where we're going to be unless we can get cheaper, deeper drilling.

So that's where all the talk about geothermal now is.

It's all about the drilling.

Yeah, I mean, I'm not sure that makes that much of a difference.

You can still produce the optimal energy locally.

Yeah, that's true.

Bigger grids are actually better because you can then balance out energy production.

Yeah, Texas is a problem because it wants to be all by itself.

So how are we going to get beyond this 0.3%, 0.4% if we're already sort of picking the low-hanging fruit by building geothermal where we can?

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