Whenever I hear the world "volcano" the first thing that comes to mind is lava melting, destroying cities, not something generating energy for them. However, this is now a last-century mindset as we can see from the state of Oregon in the US, where scientists are planning to dig a well inside the volcano and, with its heat, create vapor that can be used as energy. The Department of Energy is financing most part of the project, along with private companies such as Google who support and promote clean energy. The consequences? Although the volcano has been inactive for more than a thousand years, and research has proven the proposed well won’t affect the volcano, if there were movement in the tectonic plate, the whole project could go down in flames…literally and figuratively.
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