The author critiques the Exploration component of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Geothermal Program Review X. The … would like to review the current state of geothermal exploration in the United States. According to Koenig (1989, 1990) who … critiqued the DOE Geothermal Program in those years, geothermal exploration in the western U.S. has been conducted in virtually …