From coal to cabernet: the wine seller using a flooded mine to cut heating bills

Lanchester Wines in north-east England uses heat from a disused coalmine to maintain wine temperatures and with 23,000 flooded mines in the UK, there’s huge potential for more businesses and homes to follow its lead

An MIT spinout just drilled 330 feet straight into granite without a drill bit, firing a beam of energy that melts solid rock into a ring of black glass, and now it's pointing the same machine at an Oregon volcano to tap heat 12 miles down

None of the hardware is exotic on its own. Gyrotrons have been around for decades, used by fusion researchers to heat plasma to temperatures in the tens of

Want a job drilling for geothermal? A Northeast training hub is coming.

A worker shortage threatens to hold up America’s buildout of geothermal networks. These groups have a plan to address the problem, starting in…

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As geothermal networks grow, so does the call for a new utility model

A bill in Massachusetts would create a framework for a geothermal utility, with the aim of heating and cooling buildings cleanly and affordably.