Can Geothermal Be Cost-Effective?

Here’s an article on geothermal energy that makes some good points about this resource’s characteristics as a provider of baseload power. 

It appears that there is a factual error in the article re: cost, however; the levelized cost of energy from coal is not several times less than geothermal, based largely on the fact that the latter of which enjoys zero cost of fuel (not to mention zero emissions of the burned fuel into the atmosphere).  Here are figures from the US Department of Energy and a report called “COMPARATIVE COSTS OF CALIFORNIA CENTRAL STATION ELECTRICITY GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES.”