News Summary

• “The purpose of producing energy from near magma super-hot geothermal is that these wells are up to an order of magnitude more powerful in terms of producing energy than conventional wells,” project manager Björn Þór Guðmundsson, told the Daily Mail..
• “Monitoring the temperature profile in the roof of a magma chamber will reveal actual heat flux from magma to hydrothermal system, and unprecedented observation that will test both the promise and sustainability of Super Hot Geothermal Systems (SHGS)..
• “The project is driven by the need to understand magmatic systems, to improve volcano monitoring strategies, and to develop next-generation, high-enthalpy geothermal energy,” scientists for KMT wrote in a 2018 paper..
• KMT scientists are working on materials that will be able to withstand the scorching heat in the upcoming project.The project crucially confirmed that drilling into a magma chamber doesn’t cause the volcano to erupt, according to New Scientist..
• With over 200 volcanoes, Iceland is already a leader in geothermal energy where heat or hot water vapor is extracted and separated into liquid water and steam..
• The steam is then run through turbines that produce electricity used to power and heat its many greenhouses, used for its high levels of local food production, as well as for heating..