Just a year ago, Fervo Energy successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of its horizontally oriented geothermal system. Now the company has landed a massive contract for providing its clean, ...

Journalist and activist Nick Tsergas says Canadian governments see the building of hyperscale, AI data centres as key to the ...

According to the new EPFL study, the rock capping the supercritical zone acts in a similar way. Though it's ductile, it can be fractured so that water can flow through it. Meaning that with some ...

Over the course of millions of years, heat and pressure can transform the organic remains of animals and plants into crude oil. That's why they're called a fossil fuels — the long-dead creatures that ...

What is fracking? You may have heard about the effects this oil and gas extraction technique have on the environment, but its impacts extend far beyond that. Between 2007 and 2016, oil production in ...

New research suggests fracking waste could contain huge amounts of lithium, a main ingredient in batteries. But fracking will never be part of a clean energy future. New research suggests fracking ...