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

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[–] r_13@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years 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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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

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