It is cute that the headline article mentions a futuristic town "Geothermia" near Innamincka in NE South Aust. That was near where the ASX listed stock Geodynamics GDY drilled deep holes into hot rocks and tried production from Steam/hot water a few times and eventually recognized failure. Several hundreds of $Millions of various Govt funds and shareholder raisings were sunk into GDY and lost over a decade or so. Prof/Dr Tim Flannery was a shareholder as was ANU. At some point GDY birthed or transformed into ReNu Energy Limited (RNE.AX) - still limping on so far to nowhere as the above chart from Yahoo shows.
