Drilling into magma is the one thing geothermal engineers are trained never to do, so when an Icelandic crew hit it by accident in 2009 the well set a record nobody has beaten, and now a nonprofit...

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Original Title: Drilling into magma is the one thing geothermal engineers are trained never to do, so when an Icelandic crew hit it by accident in 2009 the well set a record nobody has beaten, and now a nonprofit wants to drill back into the same volcano on purpose