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		grosswait 75 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cape Station, future home of an enhanced geotherma... Geothermal power generation is energy conversion, while a heat pump is energy movement.

lazide 75 days ago [–]

yes. And don’t forget the ‘deep underground and the surface, where there is a useful high temperature gradient’, vs ‘a hundred meters away and with no high temperature gradient’.

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