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Drilling into magma is the one thing geothermal engineers are trained never to do, so when an Icelandic crew hit it by accident in 2009 the well set a record nobody has beaten, and now a nonprofit wants to drill back into the same volcano on purpose


Drilling into molten rock is the one thing geothermal engineers are trained not to do. You aim for the hot rock near the heat, not the heat itself, because

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