They’re using the techniques honed by oil and gas to find near-limitless clean energy beneath our feet

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Green energy Sustainability Oil & gas Climate change See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! Follow Deep beneath Utah’s desert soil, an oil drill bored through the Earth at a blistering pace earlier this spring. Gnarly looking drill bits tore through granite at around 300 feet per hour. It was done after just 16 days. The borehole, completed in April, stretches nearly 3 miles toward the center of the Earth, where temperatures reach around 500 degrees Fahrenheit and fossil fuels

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