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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Mostly cost. Unless there can be some scalability it'll be tough to compete with wind and solar. I do see it playing a role, but it'll be geographical where skills exist (Alberta), or access is easier (nearer high temperature geothermal zones). Dig deep with you can go anywhere but cost goes waaaaaaaaaaaay up
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In the second video, an engineer from Eavor mentions they envision their use case as baseload energy for wind and solar. I was guessing it was because it would be much more expensive. I would guess, beyond the upfront development cost, it should be very cheap to operate bringing down the energy/$ ratio each year. Seems a bit like the planting a tree analogy:
The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago and the second best is today.