The Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP) will create the hottest hole in the world by the end of 2016 with temperatures reaching as high as 1,000 degrees Celsius. The project should produce 10 times more electricity than traditional geothermal sources. A new study has found that a large number of birds are migrating to higher altitudes and breeding areas where they can escape from rising temperatures. The IDPP project aims to find “supercritical steam”, water in a state between liquid and gas that holds enough heat energy to create 50 MW of power.
The Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP) will create the hottest hole in the world by the end of 2016 with temperatures reaching as high as 1,000 degrees Celsius. The project should produce 10 times more electricity than traditional geothermal sources. Iceland is attempting to tap into the potential energy found in molten magma, using the IDPP rig, named “Thor”, to drill 5 km into the earth’s crust in the southwest Reykjanes region of the country. The IDPP project aims to find “supercritical steam”, water in a state between liquid and gas that holds enough heat energy to create 50 MW of power.