The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has done the homework on this, they have working power plants, they are clean, they work day and night, in any weather, so why is this solution ignored?
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Probably the cost of it, that is above other clean-energy alternatives -solar, wind, nuclear, hydro.
I mean it will be indeed very cheap in Yellowstone, but elsewhere you will have to drill and maintain very deep wells.
You haven’t been paying attention:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/business/energy-environment/24geotherm.html?ref=earth
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/01/geothermal_powe.php
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/06/geothermal-power-earthquake.php
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nano-traps-geothermal-power
And then there is cost. It is not at all clear how geothermal scales
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_power#Economics
http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2077
http://lsa.colorado.edu/essence/texts/geothermal.htm
(yes, operating costs may be nil, but initial costs are not, and they have to be paid off.)
There is a reason we are still using coal and natural gas to generate most of the electricity in the world, and it isn’t stupidity or laziness:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_cost_of_electricity_generated_by_different_sources
The lack of people asking for it. The power of lobbyist. The term ” lobbyists” is uniquely American. It was adopted in America in 19th century when individuals stayed in the lobby of the legislature and asked elected officials to come over and talk to them. So there was the term ” lobbyists” , because they stay in the lobby. Those people seek to influence elected officials, legislators in America for 200 years. Sometimes in America we call the lobbyist public affairs, government relations or other names. This term is much broader and not so infamous to some people. Public relations deal with the media, advertising, radio and television, magazines, newspapers, press releases, press conferences and relations with journalists. Public relations does not have to be just in the Congress of America. They can also be for product promotion, or for economic benefit of a corporation, or for selling a new product. So public relations stand a very broad category.