Geothermal energy is attractive because it helps secure energy supply, mitigate climate change, and comply with future green energy policies. The GeoVision study estimates a potential 26-fold increase from 2019 geothermal energy production levels to 60 GW by 2050 in the United States (Bromley et al., 2010;Dobson et al., 2017;Fan, 2020;Hamm, 2019). To expand geothermal energy production, enhanced geothermal system (EGS) is a key candidate technology (Tester et al., 2006). Hydraulic fracturing is a stimulation method for EGS, where high injection pressures are used to create tensile fractures. Hydroshearing is another closely related stimulation method where fluid injection increases pore pressures and then triggers slip along pre-existing fractures. Both
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