There are three types of geothermal power plants: dry steam, flash, and binary. Dry steam, the oldest geothermal technology, takes steam out of fractures in the ground and uses it to directly ...

Geothermal power plants work by circulating water through ... The hot water produced a flash of steam as it hit the open air, and the readings peaked. Fervo's employees continued the tests ...

Armed with plasma pulse drills, robot worms, and giant radiators, these startups aim to make geothermal possible pretty much ...

Another geothermal start-up, Eavor, is now drilling wells for its first commercial plant in Germany to provide ... though remnants of the storm are causing flash flooding in North Carolina.

Even when the geology is ideal, it can take years to get a green light to drill,' Rep. Celeste Maloy said on the challenges of geothermal energy development.

As governments and private firms worldwide invest heavily in research and development into alternative clean energy sources, geothermal energy is attracting greater attention. Although still ...

Phoenix, for example, could add 3.8 gigawatts of data center capacity without building a single new conventional power plant. Geothermal resources have enormous potential to provide consistent power.

But nine years ago, local leaders took a risk that few other hot spring towns in Japan were willing to accept: They built a geothermal power plant to turn their precious hot spring water into a ...

Explore the series here. Fred Henderson doesn’t expect to live long enough to see the completion of Colorado’s first geothermal power plant. At 89 years old, the retired geologist is trying to ...

Two power producers have started the construction of electricity plants with a combined capacity of 70 megawatts (MW) at the Menengai geothermal fields that are set to start feeding the national ...