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Khosla-backed Mazama Energy just raised $135M to drill deeper into superhot-rock geothermal

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  • the headline was changed: Khosla-backed Mazama Energy just raised $135M to drill deeper into super-hot-rock superhot-rock geothermal

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That’s an upward revision from the company’s estimate last year. Mazama said will allow each well to produce up to 10 times more power than traditional geothermal technologies.

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