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At least in Tuscany - where there is a cluster of geothermal power plants creating 1/3 of the region electricity (it should reach 40% in a few years) - they had to invent special filters to lower the emission of mercury and hydrogen sulfide https://www.enelgreenpower.com/stories/articles/2024/10/geot...

I don't know if it's "no footprint" at all. For what I know, which is not much, but just what a person living here might know, there's a footprint that can be somehow managed. But I'm not an engineer



The plants mentioned in the article are closed systems. They aren’t releasing steam into the atmosphere like the plants you’re referencing.


I wish New Zealand did more of this.

We have a whole fleet of geothermal plants (15ish), making about 20% of our power. However the largest plant is only 160MW.

The impact in comparison to our other renewables seems fairly minimal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_power_in_New_Zealan...




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