They’re using the techniques honed by oil and gas to find near-limitless clean energy beneath our feet
Photo: Freepik Deep beneath Utah’s desert soil, an oil drill bored through the Earth at a blistering pace earlier this spring. Gnarly looking drill bits tore through granite at around 300 feet per hour. It was done after just 16 days. The borehole, completed in April, stretches nearly 3 miles toward the center of the Earth,…