By John Haughey Advances in deep directional drilling fostered by hydraulic fracturing—or fracking—for natural gas are increasingly being deployed to tap into and develop geothermal energy encased below the Earth’s surface. According to the United States Department of Energy (DOE), geothermal energy generates less than a half-percent of the nation’s utility-scale electricity with the present […]
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The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and energy production, the research and development of nuclear power, the military’s nuclear weapons program, nuclear reactor production for the United States Navy, energy-related research, and energy conservation.
