{"id":193470,"date":"2024-07-24T14:26:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T19:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/iceland-will-tunnel-into-a-volcano-to-tap-into-virtually-unlimited-geothermal-power"},"modified":"2024-07-24T14:26:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T19:26:02","slug":"iceland-will-tunnel-into-a-volcano-to-tap-into-virtually-unlimited-geothermal-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/iceland-will-tunnel-into-a-volcano-to-tap-into-virtually-unlimited-geothermal-power","title":{"rendered":"Iceland will tunnel into a volcano to tap into virtually unlimited geothermal power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/iceland-will-tunnel-into-a-volcano-to-tap-into-virtually-unlimited-geothermal-power2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An initiative that sounds a lot like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zmescience.com\/feature-post\/culture\/books\/things-jules-verne-got-right-and-he-didnt-2008\/\">Jules Verne<\/a>\u2019s <em>Journey to the Center of the Earth<\/em> might mark the first time humans have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zmescience.com\/feature-post\/natural-sciences\/geology-and-paleontology\/planet-earth\/difference-lava-magma\/\">tapped into magma<\/a>, the molten rock liquid flowing beneath Earth\u2019s crust. In 2026, Iceland\u2019s Krafla Magma Testbed (KMT) project will drill into a volcano\u2019s magma chamber, seeking to tap into its super-hot fumes to generate geothermal energy at a scale that has never been attempted before.<\/p>\n<p>The endeavor promises to power homes across Iceland with a renewable, limitless energy source. And no, this won\u2019t cause the currently active Krafla volcano to erupt, according to John Eichelberger, a volcanologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks interviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26134722-100-worlds-first-tunnel-to-a-magma-chamber-could-unleash-unlimited-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>New Scientist<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Geothermal energy, a technology harnessed by Iceland for years, involves drilling into hot underground regions to produce steam from heated water. This steam drives turbines, generating electricity. Today, at least <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-15174-8_5\">90% of all homes<\/a> in Iceland are heated with geothermal energy and 70% of all energy used in the island nation comes from geothermal sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An initiative that sounds a lot like Jules Verne\u2019s Journey to the Center of the Earth might mark the first time humans have tapped into magma, the molten rock liquid flowing beneath Earth\u2019s crust. In 2026, Iceland\u2019s Krafla Magma Testbed (KMT) project will drill into a volcano\u2019s magma chamber, seeking to tap into its super-hot [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}