This is what comes to your mind right?
Well sorry fellas, in this case we are not talking about the superhero (though it might be considered as if) but about the rig in Iceland, named by the IDDP (Iceland Deep Drilling Project) after Thor, that is drilling into magma. The project started in 2009, when IDDP accidentally ran into magma while digging for high temperature geothermal resources that it used to produce energy.
Geothermal water plants are used to generate power through a process of transformation.
This video explain the process
Skip to 1:30 until 2:24
When reaching magma, the temperature can go from 1,652 degree and reach 1,832 degree which allows to produce up to five time more electricity than normal geothermal well (around 5 to 8MW of electricity). This could powered 50,000 homes !
This project, if successful, could be a really powerful source of green energy.
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