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Explosives for Geothermal Energy

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From left to right, Joseph Pope, a Sandia National Laboratories technologist, Sivana Torres, a New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology doctoral student, Veronica Espinoza, a NM Tech student, and Eric Robey, a Sandia mechanical engineer, examine a plexiglass cube fractured by a small-scale explosion. This study could be used to create new geothermal energy systems.

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