Geothermal?
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Renauda knows a lot more about this than I do, but the average U.S. exploratory well is 7800 feet deep. A lot of the oil wells talked about in the article ain't near that deep. Not near.
Now, how hot it is in these shallow wells, I don't have a clue. But I doubt it's enough for heat pumps at multiple households. Or electricity generation of much quantity at all.
Secondly, who owns the rights on these wells? Mineral rights are a forty-acre square in Louisiana for a vertical well. What are geothermal rights?
Lastly, many of the wells they are talking about are in sparsely populated areas or in hard to access areas. Wonder how well geothermal would work there? The electricity generated would have to be transmitted long distances for the most part.
