Steven Novella
speaker
1,536 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4 Jul
Steven Novella’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Interesting.
They're drilling holes and pulling out money, right?
They don't care what form it's in.
It's just a matter of the economic subject.
So they're tickled pink to expand geothermal because that's them, right?
They're the drillers.
All right, so we're basically, though, stuck where we are.
Yes, we could expand within existing sort of low-hanging fruit areas, but there's going to be an inherent limit to that.
And it's going to be hard to get beyond a few percentage points of geothermal with existing drilling technology.
And that's, again, not enough.
It's not going to be enough to really move the needle significantly in terms of decarbonizing our electrical infrastructure.
So we need new tech.
Yeah.
And that's kind of the news item, too, is what new drilling tech is there on the horizon?
Because if we could, let's say we could economically drill to 20 kilometers, let's say, then you could build geothermal plants freaking everywhere, right?
You could put them almost anywhere.
And the number of geothermal plants that can get to supercritical temperatures goes up also.
Yeah.
So you have more supercritical plants operating at greater than 374.
You have more of the hotter geothermal plants operating between 150 and 250.
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