On a recent weekday in Denver a massive drilling rig bored a hole deep beneath the city. "We plan to go at least about 2,100 feet at this site," explained Cortney Brand, Project Manager with ...

Deep underground, a construction crew is hard at work. They are digging a two-mile-long tunnel to help keep millions of gallons of raw sewage out of nearby waterways. And they have a lot of help ...

Four major factors explain why deeper drilling won't solve water woes indefinitely. For starters, it costs more, and it requires more energy to pump water from deep underground compared to water ...

Another long-term problem with shale gas drilling is wastewater. Each well can return to surface as much as 1 million gallons of water from the fracking process—the rest stays inside the shale ...

Hydraulic fracturing, commonly called fracking, is a drilling technique used for extracting oil or natural gas from deep underground. Fracking is a hotly debated environmental and political issue ...

He found water about 3,600 feet below the surface, at about 1,200 feet above sea level. His estimate of where drillers would find water was off by just six feet, he said.

It'll be surprisingly quick, too. The deepest hole humanity has ever drilled to date took nearly 20 years to reach a depth of 12,289 m (40,318 ft), but Quaise says its hybrid drilling rig ...

Deep Underground, Oceans Of Water May Be Trapped In A Crystal 'Sponge' : The Two-Way Scientists have discovered evidence of a vast reservoir of water, maybe three times the volume of all the world ...

This superheated water could potentially enable geothermal systems to extract 10 times more energy from deep, hot rock formations. However, GA Drilling is starting at more moderate depths.