I]f the Texas drilling industry drilled as many geothermal wells as it currently does oil and gas, about 15,000 per year, the state could run itself off geothermal power by 2027.
Firstly, "Texas" doesn't have a "Drilling industry." Secondly, if the drilling industry that currently drills oil & gas wells in Texas could make more money drilling geothermal wells than drilling oil & gas wells, we would be drilling geothermal wells rather than oil & gas wells.
Most of the state's population lives above potentially usable geothermal heat - as long as there's a will to drill deep enough.
The report found that if the Texas drilling industry drilled as many geothermal wells as it currently does oil and gas, about 15,000 per year, the state could run itself off geothermal power by 2027.
According to their timeline, by 2024, they'll have built the "First full-scale hybrid drilling rig combining conventional rotary drilling and millimeter wave drilling capabilities." By 2028, they will have drilled enough super-deep wells to convert a coal-fired power plant to "Equitable" geothermal power.
The industry is not going to suddenly switch from drilling oil & gas wells to drilling geothermal wells.
To make the jump from land-based drilling to offshore drilling, just as an example, drillers started by building wooden platforms in ten feet of water, and caught rides with shrimping boats out to their rigs in the morning.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/02/01/if-texas-would-only-drill-geothermal-wells/
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