When the Department of Energy released its report “Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Next-Generation Geothermal Power,” it ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Rapier is a chemical engineer covering the energy sector. Rig operators connect drills that will plunge underground to ...

As electricity demand from data centers soars, Meta and Google are looking at a novel solution: harnessing clean heat far below Earth’s surface. By Brad Plumer Big tech companies across the United ...

When I arrived in Reykjavík, Iceland, last March, a gravel barrier, almost thirty feet at its highest point, had been constructed to keep lava from the Reykjanes volcano from inundating a major ...

Geothermal energy is a type of renewable energy that uses accessible thermal energy deep underground, extracting the heat from geothermal reservoirs in the Earth’s crust. Since the heat from the Earth ...