World's Hottest Hole: Iceland to Harness Molten Magma for Electricity, Could Power 50,000 Homes

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Oct 24, 2016, 2:00 pm169 pts
Earth's abundant inner heat, or geothermal energy, has incredible potential as a renewable energy source. For traditional geothermal projects, hot rocks produce steam for turbines. Over in Iceland, however, a consortium of researchers and companies want to dig much, much deeper into Earth's crust in order to…

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