GEOTHERMAL ENERGY may be approaching its Mitchell moment. George Mitchell, a scrappy independent oilman, is known as the father of fracking. Nearly three decades ago, he defied Big Oil and the ...

Long confined to regions with volcanic activity, geothermal promises to become a much more versatile energy source thanks to new technologies. By Katarina Zimmer / Knowable Magazine Published Apr 18, ...

Using machine learning, researchers have tied low-magnitude microearthquakes to the permeability of subsurface rocks beneath the Earth, a discovery that could have implications for improving ...

The future of clean energy is unfolding on a desert plateau about four hours north-east of Las Vegas. Dotted around the spectacular sands near Milford, Utah, are nearly two dozen wells, each reaching ...

Glistening in the dry expanses of the Nevada desert is an unusual kind of power plant that harnesses energy not from the sun or wind, but from the Earth itself. The site, known as Project Red, it ...

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Historically, access to geothermal energy has hinged on real estate’s famously three most important factors: location, location, and location. Because conventional geothermal power plants require hot, ...

A major question looms over Colorado’s energy future: why does geothermal energy — a natural renewable resource — remain virtually untapped? Professor Bri-Mathias Hodge, based in the Department of ...

Correction: This story has been updated to reflect that GeoMap cannot be used to find fossil fuels. Much of the vast fleet of U.S. military bases, coal plants and industrial facilities sits atop a ...

BOISE, Idaho — A U.S. Department of Energy report this spring made a bold prediction. The nascent geothermal industry, it said, has a ready workforce of 300,000 engineers, hydrologists, drillers and ...