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

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• SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• r_13@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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