Geothermal's Path to Relevance: Better Heat Transfer and Heat Engines
https://austinvernon.site/blog/geothermalnextsteps.html

“The fracking revolution has driven a massive shift in the industry away from scientists like geologists and toward practitioners that are often engineers. … Partly this is because there is no need to "discover" shale formations since they have been known to the industry for 100+ years. And partly because the engineering-based learning model has thumped the scientist model recently.”

Interesting.