Can someone catch me up here, please? The last I read, fracking was typically seen as an environmentally unfriendly process because you break up a bunch of underlying rock, pump out the crude, and replace it with water. It destabilizes the area and lead to hit like small earthquakes. So like, drilling down, releasing a bunch of heat/pressure, and flooding the system with a bunch of water without caring about the oil is supposed to be a safer thing to do? What gives?
As electricity demand from data centers soars, Meta and Google are looking at a novel solution: harnessing clean heat far below Earth’s surface.
Submitted 2 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to energy@slrpnk.net
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spinne@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
silence7@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
They’re doing it in places with no oil to just get the heat.
Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Sigh, how long until we realize this isn’t “clean” either?