<p>Geothermal energy is renewable, reliable and powerful. So, why is most of it untapped? That’s what our listener, Anna in the UK, wants to know. Full disclosure, she’s a geologist and is thoroughly perplexed by the lack of uptake. Geothermal is renewable, reliable and abundant and yet, less than 1% of the world’s energy is generated from it. 
 
Host Graihagh Jackson hears about a team in Iceland who hope to "super-charge" geothermal power by drilling directly into volcanic magma. And she travels to Germany to visit Vulcan Energy, a company which is combining geothermal with extracting one of the world's most sought-after metals: Lithium.  
 
Plus, our reporter in Indonesia tells Graihagh about local opposition to some geothermal power plants.  
 
The programme was first broadcast in 2024. 
 
 
Got a question you’d like answered?  
Email: TheClimateQuestion@bbc.com or WhatsApp: +44 8000 321 721  
 
Host: Graihagh Jackson  
Reporter in Indonesia: Johanes Hutabarat  
Producer: Osman Iqbal 
Sound Mix: James Beard and Tom Brignell 
Editor: Simon Watts</p>

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