Iceland boasts some of the most alien geography on Earth, and now the Nordic country is tapping its unique natural phenomena as a potential—and highly volatile—source of future energy. An intrepid team of Icelandic researchers hopes that magma, or molten rock, might one day become a super-powerful geothermal energy source. Right now, the Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP) is attempting to harvest power from magma beneath a lava flow in Reykjanes. If they succeed, their achievement “could lead to a revolution in the energy efficiency of high-temperature...
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