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minus-square@r_13linkEnglish12•3 months agoThere’s history in Switzerland of creating accidental earthquakes by attempting to harness geothermal energy in 2006 https://www.wired.com/story/swiss-rock-lab/
minus-squaremosiacmangolinkfedilink13•edit-23 months agoThe tooling is likely a lot better now, ironically because of oil and gas companies developing advanced drilling tools for fracking. Some of those ex O&G employees are working on "geothermal anywhere" projects with that tooling, some of which are live now.
There’s history in Switzerland of creating accidental earthquakes by attempting to harness geothermal energy in 2006
https://www.wired.com/story/swiss-rock-lab/
The tooling is likely a lot better now, ironically because of oil and gas companies developing advanced drilling tools for fracking.
Some of those ex O&G employees are working on "geothermal anywhere" projects with that tooling, some of which are live now.