Maybe our engineers can back this up, but I don't think it could be much more efficient with a volcano. Water gets hot, then boils. We can move the water efficiently, and we can move steam, but superheated steam may present its own problems. We could get hotter by digging deeper, but our problems stemmed from cooling as we got to the surface. So we have shielded (from cooler water) the pipes to a lower level.
I bought a little more today. I feel a volcano of a different sort about to erupt. That is, when more investors realize that the financing is really not going to be a problem. We have the methodolgy, cities wanting to help out for mutual benefit, and the government suggesting they will back new projects when they get to a level of development that we have already shown we can accomplish with Thermo 1.