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Fnord666
on Friday December 16 2016, @07:11PM
from the even-Lassie-couldn't-get-Timmy-out-of-this-one dept.
from the even-Lassie-couldn't-get-Timmy-out-of-this-one dept.
Geologists say they are close to creating the hottest borehole in the world.
They are drilling into the heart of a volcano in the south-west of Iceland.
They have told the BBC that they should reach 5km down, where temperatures are expected to exceed 500C (932F), in the next couple of weeks.
The researchers want to bring steam from the deep well back up to the surface to provide an important source of energy.
"We hope that this will open new doors for the geothermal industry globally to step into an era of more production," said Asgeir Margeirsson, CEO of the Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP), a collaboration between scientists, industry and the Icelandic government.
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(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Friday December 16 2016, @08:17PM
This is fantastic. In 5th or 6th grade in school, I had this idea and asked why we weren't already doing this! I was assured that we didn't do it because it wouldn't work, or if it did it wouldn't be worth it. Didn't believe that then, don't believe it now....
(Score: 2) by rts008 on Friday December 16 2016, @09:29PM
You were given the all to common 'mistranslation' of the issue.
It 'does not work' to enrich Big Oil, and would not be 'worth it' because it does not sustain obscene profits for them(Big Oil).
Off to the re-education gulag for your ass, you radical terrorist! /sarcasm
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday December 17 2016, @12:04AM
> I was assured that we didn't do it [...]
Sad!
[...] The oldest known spa is a stone pool on China's Lisan mountain built in the Qin Dynasty in the 3rd century BC [...]
The world's oldest geothermal district heating system in Chaudes-Aigues, France, has been operating since the 14th century.
[...] Steam and hot water from geysers began heating homes in Iceland starting in 1943. [...]
J. Donald Kroeker designed the first commercial geothermal heat pump to heat the Commonwealth Building (Portland, Oregon) and demonstrated it in 1946.
[...]
In 1960, Pacific Gas and Electric began operation of the first successful geothermal electric power plant in the United States at The Geysers in California. The original turbine lasted for more than 30 years [...]
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_energy#History [wikipedia.org]