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Comment by skybrian

13 hours ago

My understanding is that it's due to better drilling techniques. The industry learned a fair bit from fracking and they're learning more from experience as they apply it to geothermal.

No particular breakthrough, but there's a learning curve and they learn more as they do more. Other industries sometimes work that way, too.

https://www.austinvernon.site/blog/geothermalupdate2026.html

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