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[-] r_13@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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

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

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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

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