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Why don’t we use more geothermal energy?

Why don’t we use more geothermal energy?

The Climate Question vor 1 Jahr

Geothermal energy is renewable, reliable and powerful. So, why is most of it untapped?

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Geothermal energy is renewable, reliable and powerful. So, why is
most of it untapped? That’s what our listener, Anna in the UK,
wants to know. Full disclosure, she’s a geologist and is
thoroughly perplexed by the lack of uptake. Geothermal is
renewable, reliable and abundant and yet, less than 1% of the
world’s energy is generated from it. Host Graihagh Jackson hears
about a team in Iceland who hope to "super-charge" geothermal
power by drilling directly into volcanic magma. And she travels
to Germany to visit Vulcan Energy, a company which is combining
geothermal with extracting one of the world's most sought-after
metals: Lithium. Plus, our reporter in Indonesia tells Graihagh
about local opposition to some geothermal power plants. The
programme was first broadcast in 2024. Got a question you’d like
answered? Email: TheClimateQuestion@bbc.com or WhatsApp: +44 8000
321 721 Host: Graihagh Jackson Reporter in Indonesia: Johanes
Hutabarat Producer: Osman Iqbal Sound Mix: James Beard and Tom
Brignell Editor: Simon Watts