Natural Sciences Active Updated Jul 22, 2026

Making geothermal power work anywhere

Geothermal power has long depended on a geographic accident, fault lines bringing hot rock close to the surface, that makes it work well in Iceland and barely anywhere else. Companies including Quaise Energy are developing drilling deep enough into hot rock to remove that dependence, aiming to give any country access to steady, round-the-clock clean power. The open stakes are whether the drilling can be done affordably at industrial scale.