Iceland's Plan to Drill Into a Volcano to Test 'Limitless' Supercharged Geothermal Energy - Slashdot
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 · 12 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
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.
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1y
Finally. We theorized this would be possible back when Bush was bombing Iraqis