[MCN] Geothermal might be a gift that keeps on giving

[Lance Olsen]

geothermal
Weekly update ⋅ December 24, 2025 <>	
NEWS	
NGOs Support New Geothermal Sustainable Development Pact | World Resources Institute <https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wri.org/update/ngos-support-new-geothermal-sustainable-development-pact&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTODg2MDUyNDcwOTQ0NzEwMDgzNTIaNTA3NzI5OWE5NmExZWJkMzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw0i4wTF3avmQ_9WljZYRcjH>
World Resources Institute <>
Next-generation geothermal technologies can provide needed sources of clean, resilient heat and electricity. The principles and provisions contained ...
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Geothermal in 2025: Progress, Pressure, and Perspective - ThinkGeoEnergy <https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.thinkgeoenergy.com/geothermal-in-2025-progress-pressure-and-perspective/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTODg2MDUyNDcwOTQ0NzEwMDgzNTIaNTA3NzI5OWE5NmExZWJkMzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw2eIesI2Gh0Chn3uxJ73e3R>
ThinkGeoEnergy <>
As 2025 closes, ThinkGeoEnergy reflects on geothermal's progress, growing competition, slower growth, and why realism, heat, and new technologies ...
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Big companies bring their attention and wallets to geothermal project in Utah - Daily Herald <https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.heraldextra.com/news/2025/dec/22/big-companies-bring-their-attention-and-wallets-to-geothermal-project-in-utah/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTODg2MDUyNDcwOTQ0NzEwMDgzNTIaNTA3NzI5OWE5NmExZWJkMzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3qqfe_gyTQ7zU89eQH3N_S>
Daily Herald <>
Fervo's Cape Station geothermal development in Beaver County. An ongoing geothermal project in southern Utah has the eyes and the money of big ...
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Parties unite behind geothermal permitting bills - POLITICO Pro <https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2025/12/17/parties-unite-behind-geothermal-permitting-bills-00693460&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAyoTODg2MDUyNDcwOTQ0NzEwMDgzNTIaNTA3NzI5OWE5NmExZWJkMzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw2jFihiiyCpUxystQYgWfOR>
POLITICO Pro <>
“Baseload geothermal power has incredible potential to help meet our growing energy needs,” said subcommittee Chair Pete Stauber (R-Minn.). “ ...
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An introduction to the next clean energy frontier: Superhot rock geothermal and the power ... <https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.catf.us/2025/12/introduction-next-clean-energy-frontier-superhot-rock-geothermal-power-supply-characterization-enhanced-geothermal-systems/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTODg2MDUyNDcwOTQ0NzEwMDgzNTIaNTA3NzI5OWE5NmExZWJkMzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw10xTl1Vyo7X_BHTqW_lEzw>
Clean Air Task Force <>
Enhanced geothermal systems could generate more electricity than 300x the 2023 U.S. power consumption. Aljubran and Horne developed the Stanford ...
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BLM to accelerate geothermal lease sales on federal land - POLITICO Pro <https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2025/12/23/blm-to-accelerate-geothermal-lease-sales-on-federal-land-00704542&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBSoTODg2MDUyNDcwOTQ0NzEwMDgzNTIaNTA3NzI5OWE5NmExZWJkMzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw1uwUmODNvqqL9Qt8M6qOEU>
POLITICO Pro <>
GREENWIRE | The Trump administration is looking to ramp up geothermal energy development on federal lands with a new Bureau of Land Management ...
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BLM to accelerate geothermal lease sales on federal land - E&E News by POLITICO <https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.eenews.net/articles/blm-to-accelerate-geothermal-lease-sales-on-federal-land/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBioTODg2MDUyNDcwOTQ0NzEwMDgzNTIaNTA3NzI5OWE5NmExZWJkMzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw2oIm3IeCS_QT3nhoM9p43g>
E&E News <>
The Trump administration is looking to ramp up geothermal energy development on federal lands with a new Bureau of Land Management policy to hold ...
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Companies Are Paying Record Sums to Develop Geothermal Energy <https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://thebusinessdownload.com/companies-are-paying-record-sums-to-develop-geothermal-energy/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYByoTODg2MDUyNDcwOTQ0NzEwMDgzNTIaNTA3NzI5OWE5NmExZWJkMzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw39FaLO7V0r9wf1ti24VHDg>
The Business Download | <>
The U.S. federal government has leased every parcel of public land it has opened for geothermal development, for the first time in years.
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Key takeaways from Focus on Geothermal 2025 year-end webinar - ThinkGeoEnergy <https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.thinkgeoenergy.com/key-takeaways-from-focus-on-geothermal-2025-year-end-webinar/%3Famp%3D1&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCCoTODg2MDUyNDcwOTQ0NzEwMDgzNTIaNTA3NzI5OWE5NmExZWJkMzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3uQlQjVbpXrjs1jhYk-V3L>
ThinkGeoEnergy <>
The ThinkGeoEnergy & Enerchange year-end webinar reviews geothermal's 2025 highlights, market trends, technology developments, and outlook for ...
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How geothermal has escaped Trump's renewable energy cuts - Quartz <https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://qz.com/geothermal-energy-renewable-trump-tax-credits&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTODg2MDUyNDcwOTQ0NzEwMDgzNTIaNTA3NzI5OWE5NmExZWJkMzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw0XDeIVTj_zC5bpo6Zy8__2>
Quartz <>
Geothermal tax credits will remain intact for years, giving developers policy certainty that the rest of the renewables industry can only dream ...
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An Ambio article by some heavyweights in climate adds some timely detail to an earlier story.

“A team including the likes of Will Steffen, Paul Crutzen, Veerabhadren Ramathan, Johan Rockstrom, Marten Scheffer and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber begin the abstract of their article by saying ‘Over the past century, the total material wealth of humanity has been enhanced …’ and they end it by saying, ‘we risk driving the Earth System onto a trajectory toward more hostile states from which we cannot easily return.’”

https://mountainjournal.org/why-rising-temps-mean-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/

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“A new area of study is the field that some of us are beginning to call social traps. The term refers to situations in society that contain traps formally like a fish trap, where men or whole societies get themselves started in some direction or some set of relationships that later prove to be unpleasant or lethal and that they see no easy way to back out of or to avoid."

John Platt. Social Traps. American Psychologist, August 1973

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