This issue looms large in my family. My grandparents traveled the world in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and collected astonishingly large quantities of finely crafted art and heirlooms that they had been warehousing until they died. My parents' generation inherited literal housefuls of this stuff but much of it is of a nature that it would be criminal to dump it in the trash.

A unique challenge of our case is the legal status of some of these goods. For example, we have enough very fine elephant ivory artwork to fill entire storage units.

For sure! I’ve been following this tech for decades. The advantage of high-quality geothermal basins is maximizing the ROI and efficiency of the first installations, which places the product in the best possible light for marketing purposes. It also provides a comparison against more conventional geothermal power generation which is deployed in the same environment.

The saving grace of C++ is that 80% of my complaints are really about the standard library rather than the language itself. I can replace the standard library with something else more consistent and modern without regard for legacy compatibility, and many people do.

Most of the rest of my complaints could be addressed by jettisoning backward compatibility and switching to more sensible defaults. I realize this will never happen.

C++ still has some unique strengths, particularly around metaprogramming compared to other popular systems languages. It also is pretty good at allowing you to build safe and efficient abstractions around some ugly edge cases that are unavoidable in systems programming. Languages like Rust are a bit too restrictive to handle some of these cases gracefully.

Not really an issue in the US at least. Their primary geothermal basins already have earthquakes far stronger than any that might be triggered by fluid injection. They also have earthquake swarms due to natural circulation of geothermal fluids in some of these areas.

It is mostly an issue in places like Europe that do not have a history of strong earthquakes and therefore lack seismic resistance civil engineering. There are a few places like that in the US (e.g. New England) where a minor M5 earthquake can cause damage but those don't overlap with areas with high geothermal potential.

The site is part of the largest high-quality geothermal basin in the world. It is larger than most countries, encompassing almost the entirety of Nevada and large parts of adjacent States. The geothermal potential of the region is enormous, even just using classic geothermal technology.

The US has long been the world's leading producer of geothermal power, mostly generated from this basin.