A clean energy source is buried under the desert, but it takes water to use it

Grist
By Austin CoronaSep 22, 2026, 4:45 am107 pts
Beneath the Rocky Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, and the deserts in between, lies a massive energy source — and it isn’t a fossil fuel. The smashing and separating of tectonic plates that produced many of the West’s most dramatic landscapes have also allowed heat from the planet’s core to rise nearly to…

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