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Iceland's Plan to Drill Into a Volcano to Test 'Limitless' Supercharged Geothermal Energy - Slashdot

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Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨solo@slrpnk.net⁩ to ⁨energy@slrpnk.net⁩

https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/10/27/0921212/icelands-plan-to-drill-into-a-volcano-to-test-limitless-supercharged-geothermal-energy?

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  • r_13@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s history in Switzerland of creating accidental earthquakes by attempting to harness geothermal energy in 2006

    www.wired.com/story/swiss-rock-lab/

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    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The tooling is likely a lot better now, ironically because of oil and gas companies developing very advanced drilling tools for fracking.

      Some of those ex O&G employees are working on “geothermal anywhere” projects that tooling, some of which are live now.

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  • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Finally. We theorized this would be possible back when Bush was bombing Iraqis

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