Now that's using your noodle! I love seeing these kinds of projects gaining traction.

I'm so glad they successfully negotiated the challenging regulatory slopes of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

Strange that they use steam turbines. Sterling cycle engines could use the heat without having to separate the steam from liquid water.

Getting energy out of the ground like this is smart. Apposed to fracking, typically a mix of water, sand, and chemicals, including ones known to cause cancer injected underground at high pressure to fracture the rock surrounding an oil or gas well, which is completely stupid.

I'm curious as to why they can't just produce tunnels that withstand the pressure down to a distance of which the temperature can instantly boil / steam water ... then just let steam rise up turn turbines, hit a "roof" turn to water and run-off back down the tunnel?
this would require no pumping to achieve and would be able to run continuously at a much more shallow distance than proposed for free
(turbine and pressure resistant tunnel maintenance aside.)

I can see why this got approved, at the end of the video he states it will generate not only electricity but more importantly TAX REVENUE. Don't get me wrong, this is great that it is non-polluting, I'm all for it. Just really annoys me that other projects, that would cost the consumer less do not get developed because there would be no way to TAX them. I guess that's the world we live in, keep fuel controlled centrally.

Love reading stories like this. The world needs more clever innovation and engineers / scientists to make it happen,
JT

Easier said than done. The cracks can't be predicted as well, errant pressure build ups can cause small earthquakes. If many of these are built overtime, this could start cooling the earth's crust, causing earthquakes in some parts of the world as pressure builds up. It could activate older pressures as a pathway is made to the hot layers. Water will find a way to hot areas and build pressure. Geothermal energy is not that easy.

Geothermal energy is the most feasible-efficient-most abundant-greenest kind of energy available to us. In fact, it alone could power all humankind needs for a few hundred years to come. There would be absolutely no need for nuclear, solar, wind energy at all (won't even consider internal combustion engines). Why isn't it appropriately developed now, on this 21st century, when so much has been achieved? By simple SELFISHNESS and GREED of corporations, which support a worldwide obsolete economic model based on debt and wars (yep, the most lucrative business of them all). Check out "Zeitgeist" (including the "addendum" and "moning forward"). Plain, simple and honest truth...

One question i would ask is what could possibly go wrong? Steam explosions? Lava dome collapse? Good thing they've thought all this thru. Of course putting a 4' windmill on every telephone pole would generate giga watts of power but that would decentralize the power grid and possibly lead to an abundance of energy. This exotic stuff is much better. If people realized simple solutions are the way out of complex problems, that might inspire people to look at our political system and determine that paper ballots would fix these weird election anomalies like what we've seen in the last 15 years.