The author critiques the Exploration component of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Geothermal Program Review X. The … Exploratory Well and Geopressured-Geothermal components of the program, as well as some general comments. Before I do that, I … would like to review the current state of geothermal exploration in the United States. According to Koenig (1989, 1990) who …