[Posted by Chuck Almdale, submitted by Anon]

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If you subscribe to New Scientist, you can read the whole story below. Otherwise it seems to peter out after a few interesting paragraphs.

World’s first tunnel to a magma chamber could unleash unlimited energy
New Scientist | Graham Lawton | 3 Jan 2023

Lead paragraph:

ICELAND is one of the most boring countries in the world. That is meant as a compliment, not an insult. The island nation is dotted with thousands of boreholes drilled deep into the rock to extract geothermal energy. They will soon be joined by another, which will be anything but boring. “We are going to drill into a magma chamber,” says Hjalti Páll Ingólfsson at the Geothermal Research Cluster (GEORG) in Reykjavík. “It’s the first journey to the centre of the Earth,” says his colleague Björn Þór Guðmundsson.