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Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 03, 2025
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A volcanic eruption at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, 1760-1761, by Peter Fabris, (1776–9) Public Domain Image Archive

"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…

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