Iceland’s Krafla Magma Testbed (KMT) is preparing to explore one of geothermal energy’s most extreme frontiers: drilling near and potentially into magma beneath the Krafla caldera. While drilling into
In 2009, a drilling team at Krafla in northeast Iceland unexpectedly struck magma while searching for superhot geothermal water. The site is a volcanic caldera about 10 kilometers wide, and the origin