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EPISODE · Dec 1, 2022 · 26 MIN

#192 Drilling Deep for Geothermal

from Engineering Matters

The deepest hole ever drilled drives 12.2km down below the border of Russia and Finland. The Kola Superdeep Borehole was an experiment to penetrate as deeply as possible into the Earth’s crust, but since 1995 it has been abandoned. Now a company believes that new technology will be able to drill to depths of 20km....

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