Pretty cool article about tapping magma miles down as an energy source.
I visited Iceland 2 years ago and they had tons of geothermal power plants that sent all the waste heat into buildings. People told me they pay like nothing for heat just for basically the pipe maintenance. They also use it to melt asphalt and sidewalks all over Reykjavik. Alcoa also had massive aluminum smelters theee because the power is ridiculously cheap.
An engineering team bored 2 miles into hot rock without causing major earthquakes—a good sign for harnessing the Earth's heat as a power source.
If a geothermal well could tap into a reservoir of supercritical fluids and use them to spin a turbine on the surface, it would be one of the most energy-dense forms of renewable power in the world.
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I visited Iceland 2 years ago and they had tons of geothermal power plants that sent all the waste heat into buildings. People told me they pay like nothing for heat just for basically the pipe maintenance. They also use it to melt asphalt and sidewalks all over Reykjavik. Alcoa also had massive aluminum smelters theee because the power is ridiculously cheap.
An engineering team bored 2 miles into hot rock without causing major earthquakes—a good sign for harnessing the Earth's heat as a power source.
If a geothermal well could tap into a reservoir of supercritical fluids and use them to spin a turbine on the surface, it would be one of the most energy-dense forms of renewable power in the world.
Want Unlimited Clean Energy? Just Drill the World's Hottest Well
An engineering team bored 2 miles into hot rock without causing major earthquakes—a good sign for harnessing the Earth's heat as a power source.
