Could Big Oil go big in the push for geothermal energy?

Department of Energy wants to expand the sector twentyfold by 2050.

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California geothermal plant. Photo: BLM.

Like a few other renewable sources, such as tidal power, geothermal energy has many things going for it. For instance, unlike wind and solar, it isn’t affected by the vagar…