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solo@slrpnk.net to Green Energy@slrpnk.netEnglish · 9 months ago

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

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solo@slrpnk.net to Green Energy@slrpnk.netEnglish · 9 months ago
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    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/

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      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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