r|psa: on geothermal

drewlissimo sent over a l'il note this eve with some thoughts about geothermal power ...

Geothermal using existing technology is sort of a small resource in the US overall, but it's got around 30GW of untapped potential total, and a lot of that is in California. There's no reason not to go forward with it because it's cheap, baseload, renewable power with a small footprint. Here's an article - Why Aren't More Geothermal Projects Moving Forward in California? about permitting problems holding it up, esp. by the BLM, which was also having problems with all the solar thermal stuff in the mojave.

some food for thought on the enviro-energy side of things!