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The Most Difficult Drilling
March 21, 2012 | Sandia Labs

“Drilling for geothermal energy is still the most difficult drilling on a cost-per-foot basis,” [...] “You have to go through the hardest rock, sometimes at high temperatures and pressures.” Quoted from the Sandia Labs press release.


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