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Iceland's Plan to Drill Into a Volcano to Test 'Limitless' Supercharged Geothermal Energy - Slashdot (news.slashdot.org)
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[–] r_13@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

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