A House committee approved bipartisan bills Thursday that would support a unique form of geothermal energy, domestic nuclear fuel development and sustainability in agriculture.
Lawmakers on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee passed H.R. 8665, the “Supercritical Geothermal Research and Development Act.”
The bill would create a program at the Department of Energy focused on the most extreme form of geothermal energy, in which developers drill deep underground tap energy from the Earth’s core.
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Like nuclear fusion, “supercritical” geothermal has potential to revolutionize the energy space, but faces difficult technological roadblocks to commercialization.
