28th April 2019, 5:46 PM
(28th April 2019, 5:36 PM)Camer999 Wrote: What are your thoughts on Geothermal power? it seems quite good but what are some of the drawbacks and why isn't it more widely used?
(I feel like you should have OP for this lol)
It suffers to mainly similar issues, mainly the lack of efficiency. There are a few different types of geothermal power. A couple of them deal with corrosive by-products which can cause issues with equipment. The easiest geothermal power to harvest is hydro geothermal, but even with that to maintain a 10MW power plant (which is one-tenth the size of a regular natural gas/coal burning power plant) would require a water flow rate of about 200 kilograms per second. WHICH IS MASSIVE and requires a HUGE plant. Sooo yeah
