Saturday, January 13, 2024

Scientists Unveil Radical Plan to Drill Into a Volcano For Near-Unlimited Energy (on Iceland). Really!

What a baloney and hype! There are not enough active volcanoes around! Who knows what the environmental impact will be if this were to be exploited and pursued on a large scale.

Perhaps, the less than 400,000 people living on the island of Iceland can benefit from it. For the rest of us not so much!

"...  Magma chambers are notoriously hard to locate ..."

Scientists Unveil Radical Plan to Drill Into a Volcano For Near-Unlimited Energy : ScienceAlert

World's first tunnel to a magma chamber could unleash unlimited energy In Iceland, scientists are planning to drill two boreholes to a reservoir of liquid rock. One will give us our first direct measurements of magma – the other could supercharge geothermal power

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