Geothermal energy potential could power US thousands of times over

'Its superheated interior burns with an estimated forty-four trillion watts of power,' reports Brent Crane in his New Yorker piece about the future of geothermal energy.
At Utah's Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE), geologist Joseph Moore leads a $300 million quest to tap this immense underground heat source, drilling L-shaped holes miles into scalding rock to create artificial reservoirs that could provide limitless clean power. — Read the rest
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