geotermia

Science and Technology

Colombia targets the hidden heat underground to generate clean energy, while Ecopetrol bets on an 80 MW geothermal project capable of producing 610 GWh per year and supplying users across an entire department in the south of the country.

Carla Teles 22/05/2026 at 14:57

The Heikanes peninsula, in Iceland, has been accumulating magma for 210 straight days — and geologists say it could be the largest reservoir of the current eruptive period.

Douglas Avila 07/05/2026 at 15:02

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Google bought 115 MW and six banks injected US$ 421 million: why AI data centers are choosing geothermal energy instead of solar and wind

Douglas Avila 30/04/2026 at 19:49

Renewable Energy

A company that has mastered geothermal energy for 50 years is investing $25 million in technology capable of extracting heat from dry, hot rocks, aiming for a new generation of power plants and clean energy storage on a commercial scale.

Carla Teles 30/04/2026 at 15:53

Germany turns on a “giant underground radiator” with up to 90 km of boreholes at a depth of 5 km, betting on a closed-loop system without fracking and transforming hot rocks into electricity and heating to open a new phase of clean geothermal energy in Europe.

Carla Teles 28/04/2026 at 15:15

An MIT startup is betting on superhot geothermal in Oregon and building the world’s first plant of its kind, targeting rocks above 300°C to generate 50 MW by 2030 and expand the project to 250 MW with few wells.

Carla Teles 26/04/2026 at 18:28

Renewable Energy

Canadian company drills almost 100 km of wells up to 4.5 km deep, transforms an abandoned geothermal field into a giant underground radiator, and enables Germany to receive electricity from a closed-loop geothermal system on the public grid for the first time.

Valdemar Medeiros 25/04/2026 at 11:14

An oil drilling company drilled 6 kilometers of rock in Colorado in just 18 days — but this time it didn’t want oil, it wanted the infinite heat that exists inside the Earth at 300 degrees Celsius.

Douglas Avila 23/04/2026 at 00:33

Com estufas aquecidas por geotermia, a Islândia produz 70% dos tomates e quase 100% dos pepinos, corta importações, testa cacau e banana, e prova agricultura

With Greenhouses Heated by Geothermal Energy, Iceland Produces 70% of Tomatoes and Nearly 100% of Cucumbers, Cuts Imports, Tests Cocoa and Bananas, and Demonstrates Sustainable Agriculture in Extreme Cold Today

Carla Teles 03/02/2026 at 13:44

geotérmicos

Science and Technology

Enhanced Geothermal Systems: Underground Technology Emerges as a Strong Contender for Clean Energy

Fabio Lucas Carvalho 14/07/2025 at 14:25