China is Drilling the World's Deepest Hole - Here's Why

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The world's biggest, fastest, and tallest, are incredible bragging rights for countries. Sources of national pride, that can set the tone for future generations. But not all megaprojects are created equal, and with China setting off to drill a 36,000-foot deep hole, there are some exciting things to talk about. So why exactly is China doing this, and what do they hope to achieve? Let's figure this out together!
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Chapters
0:00 - Introduction
0:28 - China's Plans
1:47 - Why?
2:25 - Oil?
4:30 - Geothermal Energy?
5:35 - Raw Materials
7:45 - Diversifying
9:14 - Scientific Research
10:50 - Challenges of Drilling
13:55 - Drilling Breakthroughs
15:35 - Future Economics
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[@Jeffrey.Blazer.4.20]

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) thanks you for the kind words. Good job. You will continue to have limited access to information from the CCP (at least the little they will admit to) as long as you kiss them so softly. I appreciate the emphasis on science, but your political blindness screams loudly.... Or maybe you know, and you just needed their money. Thanks for the Video, have a nice day. PS - At the end point to the right of the camera, not YOUR right.

[@criticallook1352]

They are already in China, so they must be digging a hole to the United States?!! :

[@ipp_tutor]

@@Jeffrey.Blazer.4.20 'c'mon Jeff. I can see that a bit of objectivity is totally lost on you! Of course, there's politics at play with anything related to China, the US, or any other powerful nation on Earth. But politics is only one end of the spectrum. In the case of China, economics is often more important.

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[@charlesjones7063]

As a 43 year oil geologist, I can tell you that wells this deep could possibly only make economic sense for hydrotheral energy. There is no present technology that could economically extract minerals. Plus, the challenges to drill wells at that depth/heat horizontally are beyond our abilities, now and for the far future.

[@MrCatlover]

Do you agree that oil is not a " fossil" fuel, but created from magma, and that new oil is created much faster than we are told, but this process varies a lot from area to area. It was old John D Rockefeller who came up with the idea of calling oil "fossil" in order to drive up prices when people thought there could be scarcity of oil in future. Oil drilled and found far deeper than "fossil" sediments...

[@GerbenWulff]

@@MrCatlover Some oil is definitely fossil. Most of the hydrocarbons we find are fossil fuels. But that may just be because we drill for them where we expect to find them. Hydrocarbons can be made in the ground from water and CO2 interacting with rocks, but we know very little about what is happening deep in the ground. That is why these kind of experiments are so interesting.

[@ipp_tutor]

@@MrCatlover There's a misconception around the term fossil in fossil fuels for sure. Most people think it's made of fossilised dinosaurs when, in fact, it's mostly plankton and algae piled up at the bottom of the sea. Why else would you have entire wells of oil. What? Did dinosaurs have cemeteries where they took their dead and let them pile up? It's really crazy when you think about it.

[@FellaMegaOld]

@@MrCatlover oil based fuels gum up and lose octane because bacteria eats the sugar alcohols turning it to co2, oil is fermented blood.

[@ipp_tutor]

@@GerbenWulff So true. It’s fascinating science funded by big money. How’s that different from science anywhere else? Personally, I’d love to see if they find another gate to hell like the Russians did, lol

[@sireorcry]

They're pulling a reverse Uno card and drilling to the US😂

[@ipp_tutor]

Hahaha. Love it!

[@michalak7892]

Yeah, and since earth is flat they have to go down and then up 🤔

[@danielch6662]

Unfortunately, China is in the northern hemisphere. And so is the US. If you still straight down, the antipodes cannot be in the same hemisphere. And if the world is flat, it would even be more interesting to break through to the other side and see the anti-universe underneath.

[@ipp_tutor]

@@danielch6662 lol, so, the hole just needs to be slanted a bit, not going straight down, hehe. Loved the comment for the flat earthers, BTW. Hope you’re not one of them, LOL

[@clemlo4973]

@@danielch6662 he didnt mentioned antipodes.

[@rastus666]

I worked on a test hole for geothermal energy on the east side of Mt. Shasta, California. At 9000 feet we hit superheated water over 700 degrees, but it had no pressure behind it, and was deemed unusable at that time, 40 years ago.

[@robbmaier368]

There would never be anything useable only information that can not ever be used

[@jasonborne5724]

That doesn’t make sense. Water above 212 F needs to be contained (under pressure) in order to stay as a liquid. The atoms would be very excited at 700 degrees, which is pressure.

[@DPelicanGaming]

Why not a highly conductive rod going into a tank then pipes to a steam piston engine that's hooked to a generator head

[@adriendebosse6941]

@@jasonborne5724 700°F is about 370°C, almost the critical point of water (which is at 221 bars of pressure). Let's say the water was at 370°C and 300 bars of pressure (it would be liquid), but the pressure would "only" help to keep it liquid until it drops under 220 bars (which is 800m higher, from the 3km depth). To have any kind of use, you would need to have the water stay at a high enough pressure and temperature at sea level.

[@gust9464]

Sounds like they are trying to drill to the U.S. or making safe houses for government officials in case of a nuclear attack 🤔

[@scotttatlock3188]

Your video was really well made and you are a great presenter! Thanks !

[@KaceyGreen]

They heard all the stories of digging to China and wanted to dig back 😜

[@annpeerkat2020]

my mother did that in the early 60s.... but gave up when she got deep enough for the plumber to fix the pipe leak she knew was there.

[@stevehayward1854]

There is vast amount of heat down there and the potential for geothermal energy at that depth, is enormous.

[@dudes1079]

But surely pumping up the heat, and therefore the cooling left behind, is going to have a big effect even if we can't predict what it is?

[@CraftySasquatch]

You don’t have to drill that deep to get the maximum benefits of the earths geo thermal heat.

[@magnumkenn]

@@CraftySasquatch i’m interested, got a link to more information?

[@stevehayward1854]

@@CraftySasquatch No but the deeper you go the more efficient the process is. Some places are lucky to have hot spots closer to the surface but those that havent deep hole drilling is an effective way to go

[@stevehayward1854]

@@dudes1079 There is a vast amount of heat to replace the small amount of heat lost from the adjacent area

[@dibibob1474]

It was a very instructive and informative content. I feel lucky to be your subscriber. thanks a lot.

[@babslan3341]

I am glad, I found your channel. Because I am learning so much, that's what's most important to me, learn and understand. Thank you.

[@jedgrahek1426]

I'm liking your videos a lot, the more I watch you. You always give a complex, deep reading of any given topic, from a broad, big-picture perspective... and it's something we need a lot more of, in this Western culture many of ourselves find ourselves in due to mere circumstance.

[@chrisbooge2217]

If you're getting your news, or general information from 2 bit davinci, you really, really need to stop. The man talks dribble in circles about information he knows nothing about. He's literally talking nonsense "diggity Bixby booga rebook deboot" i just said as much good information as he did in this whole video in that one sentence.

[@markfla]

Hi from Ireland. Love your content :)

[@stevieray2903]

Amazing. I am so glad I found your channel. I enjoy every video.

[@modallas8034]

Good job! Keep up the great work. 👍👍👍😎

[@colinkelley6493]

You just explained something. A neighbor called me last week. A hole opened up in his back yard. Two Chinese men poked their heads out of the hole. Then they went back down. He wanted to know if I knew where he could get a rope ladder.

[@toddwmac]

Great vid as always and hope you do more on Quaise. At least on the surface, their strategy of eventually using existing coal fired plants to deliver the massive energy needed to run their gyrotron drills heads directly at or near the plant, and then transistion that plant from coal to geothermal steam seems almost too good tot be true. Early going and a ton of unknowns for sure. But according to the Journal of Petroleum Technology, this year their goal is a 100 inch deep x 1 inch hole which would be 10x improvement over their best from last year. If they can scale anywhere near that rate annually, in 3-4 years they would be to depths far deeper than needed. Pretty exciting. Thanks for all you do!

[@Tugedhel]

Yes. Please do a deep dive on this. Todd, this exactly what is so exciting about their approach... Zero line-drop in energy transmission to the project and then replacing the existing boiler setup with geothermal and having all of the existing infrastructure in place to continue on with. :-) Love it.

[@robertthorpe7007]

Fascinating, well explained, and all together first rate.

[@nndn-wc6ko]

your speaking skills are fantastic, really easy to listen to and absorb and a great rate of delivery. fantastic visual aids. Liked and Sub'd

[@fountainvalley100]

For geothermal power plants there are other fluids like butane and iso-pentane. These organic fluids require much lower temperature heat sources. As to the electrical plasma drill the cost was for electricity only. Need to complete costs to compare the two.

[@theresa337]

Awesome info. This should be a science class!

[@Lokkiism]

Thank you this topic was so interesting and I learned a lot about deep drilling projects

[@josecanyousee4125]

I love how he quotes all these assumptions as if they are factual. That the problem with most professors and teachers, they really don't know how much of what they parrot is just assumptions

[@dudes1079]

Thank you that was one of the most interesting videos I have EVER seen. Jo

[@Topidop92]

Thank you for this informative video and also well design : ) May I ask what program is used to create the animation? : )

[@TwoBitDaVinci]

Apple motion! Cheers!

[@Topidop92]

@@TwoBitDaVinci Thank you : )

[@rogerhill138]

Great post. Thanks.

[@KtotheL]

Nice video thank you. It's very concerning we don't know what's going on with this planet and our attention is being diverted away from the serious nature of all this. Judging from the storms in the past year there's going to be a hell of a winter coming...

[@russianhackee]

It was refreshing to see someone is still drilling, or at least intending to. My Mum was involved in Kola Superdeep Borehole project as data analyst so I grew up in the 80's with constant updates on Kola SD-3 progress. Still have a "souvenir" rock at home stamped with СГ-3 12262m. Quaise technology sounds very sci-fi but hey, if they manage to pull this off (let alone at $0.5M per drill) that'd be amazing! Goodluck to the Chinese, though.. Great video overall, as the few I watched from your channel before, so finally subscribed.

[@dh2032]

"СГ-3 12262m" is from down the hole, what does it look like "СГ-3 12262m" is from down the hole, what does it look like, does just look like rock, or can tell it something different about it?

[@grumblycurmudgeon]

Didn't that one go 7.5miles deep? How is China's planned 7 miles "the deepest"?

[@grumblycurmudgeon]

@@irradiot Read the TITLE OF THE VIDEO? "China is digging the world's deepest hole! Here's why!" Followed by A. Detailing their plan to dig the second deepest hole, and B. Acknowledging the Kola Hola was deeper. As to why, it's written between the lines: "KZbin reaches into worlds deepest hole for clickbait!"

[@russianhackee]

@@dh2032 they look like a pretty normal granite to me or an untrained eye (like mine). It's not like it has diamond specks or something. More of a sentimental value as I know the origin and one (of the two I have) has writing on it.

[@russianhackee]

@@grumblycurmudgeon they did reach 7.5, or 7.6 miles if you want to be precise. That's 12 km and were aiming at 15 km I believe.

[@jonathanbrown2407]

Thanks for another super informative and interesting dive into our world!

[@maxdon2001]

Great video!

[@adamMjarosz]

I’m impressed with the level of knowledge and research you bring to this. Amazing

[@lindajones8977]

Me too! I’m very impressed with this video and want to learn more!

[@ThisRandomGuyYouDidntNotice]

50 years later "why cooling our earth's core using geothermal is a bad idea" 😂

[@lukasvisby1156]

Also thought about this haha

[@ipp_tutor]

@@lukasvisby1156 That's like saying: 50 years later, why absorbing solar energy is a bad idea. You missed the part about this hole only being a tiny little speck on the surface of the earth. It's less than a mosquito bite on your arm.

[@mitchelbrown793]

@@ipp_tutor Haumanity has a history of saying, "Cut down trees, there are so many we will never run out. Shoot the pigeons for food, there are so many we will never run out. Pump that oil, there's so much we will never run out."

[@lukasvisby1156]

@@ipp_tutor my second thought was also that they’ve been doing it for any years in places like Iceland. If you do it enough then it will probably have consequences but a few holes in the ground probably won’t hurt our world I think you’re right about that

[@ipp_tutor]

@@lukasvisby1156 yeah. Iceland is the perfect example. It’s a very volcanically active region so it feels like there’s no way you’ll run out of heat from the ground. But that’s true for all of the Earth’s crust, not just in places like Iceland. We could power the entire world for millions of years with the heat in the Earth’s crust alone, and that’s without counting the fact that most o f the thermal energy from the mantle and core will still be there

[@andyxox4168]

Loved the graphic of the geothermal plant, only …. the steam is flowing the wrong way through the turbine! 😂😂😂

[@pathfinderdaddy]

Whaaaat! The chairman is going on the road with his Devo cover band?

[@adamkral8110]

Great video! Lots of information that I didn’t know I wanted to know. Seriously this one was packed and exactly what a scientific mind like mind craves!

[@jameslmorehead]

The energy beam drilling is a pipe dream. They have been trying to sell that for 20+ years and it has gone no where. As you drill deeper, the head pressure of the mud is a bit self regulating. Gravity pulls down on everything. The pumps are there to control the flow rate rather than pressure. Yes, pressure is created, but it's no the goal. If the mud's flow rate drops too low, the spoils will drop ou of suspension and jam up the hole. The deeper you go, the higher this flow rate needs to be. My great great grand father invented the tricone drill bit that is/was commonly used to drill for oil and gas. We still have the original patent and all the paperwork that went with it. It's the same patent that Howard Hughes Sr used to make their vast fortune.

[@vinnylamoureux1187]

And, how are they going to know what they have drilled into.using the hot wave method since it seals as it goes using the hot rock ???

[@izzzzzz6]

That is very interesting. I believe the centre of the earth is hollow due to the forces of gravity. Just as everything pulls downwards towards the greatest mass the same goes for when you are in the centre, the mass is all around you and thus pulls everything out towards it. Do you agree?

[@Wolf462]

@@izzzzzz6No this is the dumbest shit I’ve heard all week.

[@Wolf462]

Retired offshore oilfield driller here. The required flow rate of your drilling fluid is calculated by the engineers and is dependent on the size of the hole section you are drilling, and the anticipated downhole geology. This is done by looking at other wells in the area and other seismic data from surveys. The weight and viscosity of the drilling mud is based off this geological information. You need to have sufficient hydrostatic pressure to counter balance the hydrocarbons you anticipate to hit otherwise you will have a blowout. Yes the drilling fluid removes cuttings from the hole, but it has several jobs - the main one being the it’s your main well control method.

[@boogusnutsack5926]

@@izzzzzz6 We knows it not hollow thanks to the study of seismic waves passing through the earths core. When an earthquake goes off there are 2 waves that are produced, the primary wave and the secondary waves, the primary wave can pass through both liquid and solid material. Secondary waves cannot pass through a liquid. We know the outer core is molten(liquid) because secondary waves cannot pass through it, but primary waves do, and we also know the core is solid because primary waves speed up as they travel through denser material. Because of this we're able to measure and predict when a primary wave will arrive on the other side of the planet based on where it originated from. We know the speed of the shockwave in all of these mediums (Solid, liquid, gas) and their respective densities, and we also know the diameter or the earth, making it quite easy to calculate. If the core were hollow the primary wave would slow down dramatically as pressure waves travel much much slower in air than they do in a liquid and dramatically less so than in a solid. If the core were a vacuum it wouldn't propagate at all leaving a giant shadow on the far side of the core where no wave would be detected. So if the earth were hollow and we took our measurements assuming it was solid, we would end up with a speed, an elapsed time of propagation and a diameter of earth that wouldn't line up, due to the slow down in the gas. On paper it would come across as say, the earth would need to be 13,000 miles in diameter instead of 7900 miles that it is, based on the time it took the shockwave to arrive. Therefore we know the core must be far denser than air and thus, not hollow.

[@mattchenard591]

How do you only have a lisp half the time? Im curious tho i know i wont get an answer...do you use the sides of your tongue instead of the tip? Is that what changes the sound? Sorry for being ignorant.

[@whodat1721]

The reason China is the leader in so many of these markets is because they don't conserve. They strip, destory, and contaminate the areas where they mine all these metals. Not to mention they pay their workers very little compared to what the Chinese government gets from selling these metals. China can't keep this pace as they are actually spending way more then they are making. And are losing trading partners. The reason other Countries aren't able to compete is due to precautions and laws that help to maintain their enviroments. When China runs out and over contaminates their Country. Other Governments will still be mining while not destorying their enviroments.

[@henrikcederlof8444]

Isnt Titanic at a depth of 3.800meters? Looked like you wrote 13800, but thank for a great video💪

[@MrEddieLomax]

The technology that vaporizes rock is intriguing as it could offer a new way of mining, however it is unlikely we could keep the rock as vapour to extract, the best option would be a bit at depth there which could accept only the elements we are looking for which we periodically hoist up - sounds rather difficult to design though!

[@DavidCoxDallas]

actually, Quaise sez the other way around, a conventional drill down to the basement, then the vaporising gyrotron would be sent down the hole to go deeper.

[@fmvm]

and what will happen if the Quaser drill meet a carbon or gas layer?

[@DavidCoxDallas]

@@fmvm at that depth? if gyrotron is used below the sedimentary layers, how could that happen?

[@Lucien86]

Its the kind of technology that works great if you have a portable fusion reactor to power it, or some other source of near unlimited energy.. Like real Strong AI not really that much closer than it was twenty or thirty years ago.

[@ianbardon8581]

Was that an experiment in Maui ?

[@oneheadlight8000]

If you are vaporizing and cauterizing the hole you are drilling, then how do you research any of the material you are finding?

[@jasonb7878]

Thank you

[@markjolliff3668]

This was fascinating!

[@TwoBitDaVinci]

I know I agree... lots to think about :)

[@4D2M0T]

I ised to be a core driller, the deepest I went was about 2000mt. My concern with the death ray drilling is if your vaporising everything to drill the hole and the hole wall is glassified enough to hold the pressure of the surrounding rock your basically going to be studing the exiting vapour and left over glassified hole. Not what would be ideal to study like raw core samples

[@stevecade857]

Great for making a hole, useless for gathering info.

[@LTPottenger]

You can take samples out of the side.

[@stevecade857]

@@LTPottenger That is next to impossible as it'll be a layer of glass. Side wall samplers have enough trouble in regular wellbores as it is. Most of the info is gathered from cuttings circulated out of the hole but blasting it with a heat ray is going to destroy that.

[@cw449]

The technology that vaporizes rock would come quite handy if it can be applied to replace the way we drill holes through mountainous area for creating transportation lines.

[@davismelverick2294]

I really love ♥️ and learn a lot from your videos 👍

[@leeo268]

The world's current deepest hole is the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia, which is 12,262 meters (40,230 feet) deep. The Chinese borehole is not expected to surpass the Kola Superdeep Borehole.

[@michaelfleury8472]

9:25

[@williamrbuchanan4153]

We can do anything but forget cost. Money is the preventer of advancement of Humanity away from personal I want, let’s get to , we all want. Then we can do it, not compete unite.

[@girenloland]

They just use the death ray to melt the borehole, turning it to glass, as the host of this video said 😂😂 im sure that will work.

[@susandickerso7675]

I wondered how it would compare to the Kola borehole ....thanks for the info!

[@adamrose6963]

@@williamrbuchanan4153 nice sentiment but wholly naïve money is not the only thing keeping the world disjointed things such as culture language shared experiences as a people divide us just as much as money divides the rich from the poor and that's before you add beliefs into the mix in other words what hope for is almost if not impossible to ever happen

[@Burroughsbikebuilds]

Very blessed to have these experiments happen in my lifetime. I’ve managed to get the James Webb and now this. Hopefully a third major discovery platform is also created.

[@robertbrown6513]

Yes you are a good brainwashed sheep. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

[@user-qd1fo8mx5r]

TRY N TRY UNTIL YOU SUCCED NICE JOB TO TRY FOR BETTER N FOR WORST

[@michellebygate4334]

Your reality is sqewed!!!!!

[@psps6623]

1:00 Didn't expect to find Pennsylvania down there, but it explains a lot :)

[@tommykramer8206]

The US- Is there oil down there? - No - Bye

[@philliplopez8745]

When we drilled deep , the problem that stopped us was the clogging of the drill bit we were able to push a little further by injecting small high grade bolts to unclog the bit which created problems of their own .

[@Helpyourselfs]

I think you need more pumps buddy. What are you doing drilling 10,000’ with a super single?😂😂😂

[@TwistedSheep1009]

That was not a vd, how long ago was this? What kind of drill? Conventional or hydro

[@TheSulross]

normally powerful pumps are forcing drilling mud down the interior of the drill pipe, which jets out through the drilling cones, and will force the cuttings back up the hole on the exterior of the drill pipe. The deeper one goes this process needs to be sustained, but the increasing difficulting of doing so mounts up non linearlly to where wiil eventually exceed technology ability

[@paradiselost9946]

@@TheSulross equalising pressures, by maintaining density of the mud being pumped, monitoring for blowout, dealing with the tailings... annd theres that whole drill string to pull up whenever something goes wrong. cutter needs replacing. pulling and disconnecting a few kilometers of pipe. screw that. i stick to making bits. and what if the freaking thing breaks off? what was that tolerance i had to braze cutters too? +-0.125mm... else they wouldnt go back in the hole.

[@TheOriginalDeckBoy]

Russia tried this but reached a depth where the drill bits were effectively acting like an egg beater in a cake mix.. The drill head melted and one could go no deeper as the integrity of the hole would simply fill in the second you withdrew the drill stack... This varies in depth depending on where you drill but inevitably they will experience this problem...

[@ansonang7810]

Yeah your correct the USSR had deepest hole. I try not to watch this sorta stuff since most are just propaganda

[@FengG0]

Material science has advanced since then

[@omarcj789]

They had to use a nuke to close that one

[@raypimienta7670]

I never had an egg beater melt

[@Cerberus984]

​@@FengG0Could you elaborate how newer material science is going to negate bore hole closure by the sheer pressure that deep into the ground?

[@travelvideos7999]

They should develop a self standing digging bot which isn't mechanically linked to the shaft. And the shaft should be replaced with a hose to remove the ground rocks after the bot.

[@KheranSmith]

Digging deep enough to use the heat for energy is super clever 😅

[@izzzzzz6]

How much energy will it take to beam an 8" wide hole that deep and what can you actually do with an 8" wide hole?

[@Brianbd]

ricky you have an error in your graphic at 9:50 with the titanic. it states the titanic is 13,800m deep it is 3,800M deep. one of your editiors added a 1 before the actual depth reading on that info graphic!!! otherwise GREAT VIDEO! LOVE YOUR WORK

[@Nobodyfromnowhere42]

Maybe they mixed feet with meters

[@ipp_tutor]

Good observation

[@Orbitaldeath]

The "whole" grand scheme of things... lol I seen what you did there 🤣

[@bsutherland3946]

Graphic at 4:50 is wrong. Steam flow goes in the other direction. Steam enters the High pressure section first then enters intermediate pressure section. Then up into crossover pipe and into the low pressure section.

[@ML-db2cc]

Just some feedback, for technical topics like this, it would be great to collaborate with a subject matter expert such as a drilling engineer to avoid misinformation. For example, 36k feet is not particularly deep these days, and ‘laser drilling’ is like a running joke in the industry.

[@sbomaggz]

True, as I was watching I took all his info with a pinch of salt because I know very well he is not an expert on what he's talking about.

[@kimatong1166]

This more like a chinese paid propaganda.

[@robbmaier368]

Just like is said have a real engineer look over everything and not cut corners like China does what a joke

[@tjallingdalheuvel126]

Nasa was not laughing, added a laser to shoot at rocks and spectograph the composition. Lmao the times and the kind of people dissmissimg something as impossible. Because they was limited by their imagination and knowledge. The things they know they could not have imagined. Funny folks.

[@thekinginyellow1744]

If it were up to "The Industry", nothing would ever change.

[@cheyenneloutzenhiser510]

So why not have the shaft casing around the drill then every extension can be the same with and you use something to keep pounding the shaft walls in as you drill

[@jeanpierreagostiniderisi-sy3tb]

The Two Bit Da Vinci I was died forever.

[@mastpg]

What I'm getting from this is that sharks with freakin' laser beams on their heads was a surprisingly reasonable request.

[@sabb1330]

Hey I just found your channel! Thank you for content I am greatful. You are very inspiring. Do you have background in science? I’m 29 year old dropout working want to to back to school for cultural anthro / archaeology

[@TwoBitDaVinci]

Yah I have a degree in mechanical engineering from Berkeley. I love it, never give up, and always be crazy curious! I’m always down to chat

[@richardscathouse]

Or just take up "lesbian basket weaving" like most of Americas college kids 😢

[@robloxian1014]

@@richardscathouse Well that surprised me! I’m not doing that!

[@jamespkinsella5018]

By the way, I love your show.

[@ariloves10]

The fact that we know more about "what's up" than "what's down" seems a clear indicator where most humans want to go.

[@azharmukhi5894]

"We have just scratch the surface " LITERALLY 😂

[@bernicemarie7243]

Are there any dna related reasons they would want to dig this hole? I vaguely remember an ice drilling hole that they were testing and found out lots of dna information that changed some previous scientific theories.

[@annpeerkat2020]

analysing the dna of the boofhead that came up with this idea is about the only possibility of merit.

[@restitvtororbis5330]

No, for several reasons. This isn't nearly the same situation as the ice core drilling research. Ice is able to preserve DNA for potentially millions of years mostly due to the cold, but also because it can be sealed away in the structure of the ice. Drilling into crust will increase the temperature the deeper you go until the point where the molecules that make up DNA will break up. You might have seen some research about extremophile archeabacteria that can live surprisingly deep, or maybe fossils they found bore holes or ice holes, but i don't think there's anything they could find DNA wise in a super deep bore hole

[@danielegyalog1251]

9:37 i think there is a mistake in the graphic here, it showes the titanic is sunk deeper than the mariana trench in meters right? the titanic is only 3'800m under water, not 13'800m or am I mistaken?

[@BeyondBirth]

Unfortunately, Nature Journals are becoming more and more politicized. Saying you’re getting published in them no longer equates to doing good or worthwhile research. It’s a crying shame too.

[@dizzy6277]

It's one hole in one place so it's only going to tell you "what is this deep, in this one place" I think this is just another case of "mine is bigger than yours". Just like the cold war.

[@ipp_tutor]

Pretty much, yeah.

[@vasyllizanets7954]

China needs huge amount of electricity for its economy. That could be a reason of drilling. There are many 10km's deep earthquakes in that regions(Xinjiang). This type of earthquake performs because of electrical breakdown in gases. It means that there are many "charged capacitors" on that deep. To my mind, China wants use that electricity that is very pragmatic goal as always.

[@bogbreffful]

Every now and then, I stumble upon a video that absolutely fascinates me, and this video is one of them. China is No.1 in all but name, it would appear. Great video, and I'm subscribing now! Brilliant!

[@skeligun]

When I saw the title I was like oh jeez, again? Lol. Oh wait or was that the soviets.

[@Granddude1060]

It seems your steam turbine steam flow is backwards. Your graphics have it entering the two low pressure turbines and exiting the high pressure turbine

[@spydersweb2]

What a perfect teacher you are! I am in awe of your sense of curiousity and the incisive mind that can synthesize so many facts into a cohesive whole. I always learn something new watching this channel and the material is always fresh / never boring.

[@f87115]

What a perfect student you are

[@MrOptima]

While the Quaise approach can go deeper and faster, it turns the walls into glass and all you get in the end in a very long glass lined hole with no discoveries. The Russian hole allowed for all sorts of discovery like water, pre-cambrian life fossils, lunar rocks correlation, etc. So, Quaise is like taking a flight around the world. Yes, you did travel the world but you saw very little of it.

[@jf8138]

Not necessarily. There is no reason they cannot look at the sides, and drill outwards, once a down tunnel is made. That glass layer will be easy to go through, it would likely be very, very thin. Saying you will see very little, and learn almost nothing, is silly, to say the least.

[@cimbus]

Good analogy 👍

[@davidnorbertgarza]

Say, I have to say that your video is very interesting and your presentation is great, not to mention your pleasant voice, be blessed from the Northwest in the Yakima Valley, Washington State 🕊️🙌🏾🙏🏽✝️😇

[@richhoops2413]

This episode should be titled "Tool Bit da Vinci"

[@The1stDukeDroklar]

Glad he talked about Quaise. Been hopeful for them for a year now. I think they are on the right track to a true solution to global energy needs in an environmentally friendly way. I would think that this tech could also be used for placing geothermal plants near the ocean for desalinization purposes. A far more promising technology than the pie-in-the-sky fusion research.

[@dudusblack]

Just because 4minutes ago

[@kumaragurusubramanian581]

U r in delusion, y the fuck you want that energy to be used in useless desalination projects// just have a pipe to transmit water where there is more to where there is less. It's much more easy solution/ the only problem is if geopolitics comes into play and countries with power stopped other countries from getting water

[@fmvm]

what will happen if the Quaser drill meet a carbon or gas layer?

[@cullyfirmin6039]

Sorry to say, I've watched this Quaise/Woskov pitch since the 2008 patent application. I'll spare you the unfortunate assessment of a 40-year energy R&D pro.

[@The1stDukeDroklar]

@@cullyfirmin6039 Seems a lot more viable than the pie-in-the-sky fusion research.

[@CTimmerman]

The Guardian reported that with a planned depth of 11,100 metres, the narrow shaft will penetrate more than 10 continental strata and reach the cretaceous system in the Earth’s crust - a series of stratified rocks dating back 145m years. They also recently found fuel down there. With a depth of 12,262 metres, the Kola Superdeep Borehole in north-west Russia is the world’s deepest human-made hole.

[@BergenDev]

And stories about "Having drilled in to Hell" was born lol

[@aaroncarr-mackay2457]

So china wants to one up on Russia basically.

[@everythingpony]

13ms is nothing

[@aaroncarr-mackay2457]

@@everythingpony 13ms sounds like a lab designation for a virus. Use Grammer.

[@supocarta74]

This dudes got a half moon shadow respect...

[@joerock1736]

The possibilities seem to be limitless with this new drilling technology. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️

[@NoodlesExtraMSG]

Who dropped a real LightSaber perfectly straight down?

[@nggd2259]

This could be very dangerous

[@rogerstarkey5390]

Because.........?

[@markhill7392]

Out here in west Texas there's a little town called Pecos. There's a 25,600 foot gas well here. There are several 20000 plus wells around Ft Stockton, tx.TX. the no. 2 Emma Lou is hust under 30000 feet. It was drilled in the 79.

[@bobgreene2892]

How can a bore-hole become an extraction point?

[@KaiseruSoze]

If you use a maser to vaporize rock, that mass still has to rise up and exit the hole. And it has to get out of the way of the beam for the beam to hit the rock. You could pipe air down to the bottom of the hole and support the "maser drill bit". This reminds me of "space elevators" And analyzing the rising vapor isn't going to very useful. The maser will destroy tons of information (thermodynamics). And that means less support mass, but you still have tons of rock vapor to lift up miles. And then that rock vapor is going to go everywhere. Should we just ignore it? Can breathing that vapor be dangerous? (Yep) If you really want to explore time - go to the Grand Canyon. The oldest rock at the bottom of the canyon is in the Elves Chasm Gneiss. It's over 1.8 billion yrs old. > 145 million yrs. And the Grand Canyon is much longer than the depth China is aiming at. I.e., lots of data. Very few holes. No pollution. If this was entirely for science, they wouldn't use the drill bits shown in your video. They'd use coring bits. Conventional bits turn structures into mud. Not that mud is useless, but with structures you can radio carbon date bits and pieces of the sample to see how homogeneous the sample is make sense of it. Why? because drilling that deep you'll very likely cross igneous rock and basalt. Which can the layers come out out of order. But with enough holes you get more data... maybe some brilliant geologists can sort it all out? And anyway, the Grand Canyon is pretty much carved from sedimentary rock. So the strata pretty much conform to a linear history. If you drill a million holes you'll get a much better picture of the geohistory than what you'll find in the Grand Canyon. But, it is an interesting exploration. It has my attention. I hope that this engineering journey is open sourced.

[@richardscathouse]

I never considered it myself. Ask Putin. He's the one with the Ph.D. in Mining economics 😅

[@billpetersen298]

Open sourced? This is the CCP. We only see, what they want us to see.

[@johnloud4578]

I really tried to get geo-thermal for my home here in CA when my furnace died. I was willing to pay a premium. The government has everything so regulated, that the contractor could not even give me a price - just a base cost plus whatever else it would take to placate the government inspectors. When that base cost was already double a standard heat pump, I realized that our politicians don't really care about our environment - just their power and control. They shut me down trying to install geo-thermal.

[@SubvertTheState]

You're starting to get it sir. Politicians talk. It's so easy to talk, my frustration is that people believe the things they say. So much wasted time, resources and effort.

[@philbert006]

​@@SubvertTheStatebeing frustrated that others don't listen to you is not ever going to work. You'll just be endlessly frustrated. Sharing your thoughts or passions, or whatever else is fine. Educating someone that shares your interests or asks for info is even better. Offering unsolicited advice or information then becoming frustrated when it's not received in the way you like, frustration and disappointment is your guaranteed result. Pushing the issue or resulting to essentially harassment seeking your desired outcome, well then you have crossed the line into being just like the ones you're warning someone about. It's not a matter of presenting your case the wrong way, at least I'm going to operate on that assumption, it's more a matter of finding a willing audience. I think putting some effort into finding that willing audience will reward you with a lot less frustration, not to mention save effort wasted on dead ears. I'll even provide a demonstration. I've offered my thoughts and experiences to you. I think it's sound and worth consideration. But I promise you, I won't be even a little frustrated or bothered if you choose not to accept or implement it. As a matter of fact, since it was unsolicited, I would be a fool to attach any kind of significance to it. If you tell me to get fucked, I won't be frustrated. Quite the opposite, I'll be amused, which is a fine return on my investment of a couple minutes typing. As I said though, just my two cents, and I can afford to give it freely.

[@SolarTechFL]

I did my own geothermal on both of my homes

[@jonathangems]

The same applies to wind and solar energy. I put a small wind turbine on the roof of my house. I was ordered to remove it and threatened with fines. Then I put solar panels on the roof hooked up to an array of car batteries to provide electricity. Again, I was threatened with fines if I didn't unhook the batteries and feed the electricity into the grid. I'm allowed to supply electricity to the government-not to myself. The government and the people are natural adversaries because the government wants to govern and the people want to be free.

[@Picks_Productions]

New Zealand is shipping hundreds of thousands of tons of minerals to China, which are being extracted in my town.

[@deathByStupid]

China is on the up and up, I heard their research into novel coronaviruses is world changing.

[@jamesn3513]

I don’t think China is going to get very much iron ore out of a small hole like that, especially at that depth.

[@ipp_tutor]

Dude, it's not about extracting. It's about exploration and studying the crust to see available minerals/resources.

[@jeffperteet2327]

They are the masters of wasting money, to say that they did anything first.

[@ipp_tutor]

@@jeffperteet2327 who? China or the US?

[@Apollorion]

@@ipp_tutor At least a (sub)set of those that are so rich and powerful that they can make those decisions e.g. Elon Musk, John F. Kennedy, Xi Jinping etc.

[@SPLITSLEEVE]

@@Apollorion Give that title to the Weapons Industrial Complex

[@necurrence1776]

The deeper you drill the more issues you encounter, such as heat melting your tools. I don't believe there's any benefit besides surpassing the russians. Just take some lava from a volcano, result is the same as drilling deep.

[@RiversJ]

And when that view will inevitably prove wrong, whether during this project or the ones after it, what will you say then? This myopia is asking to scientists in the late 19th century claiming there's only a few tiny unknown spheres of knowledge left. Turns out those thigs were the standard model, gravity and radioactivity. Will this be on that order of magnitude? Probably not in scientific terms but it could easily be that scale in terms of economic and political spheres.

[@wooy1701]

@@RiversJ there are just some very big issues with digging that deep, once rocks get a couple hundred degrees they start to become significantly more compressable and thus when you dig a hole the pressure of the earth willl quickly fill it back up, additionally your tools will melt. you probably can develop solutions but as far as i can see this project does not

[@jushotheone]

You have a new subscriber

[@theadventuresofbrockinthai4325]

Just a thought, if they are drilling that deep, wouldn't they run the chance of hitting the core? I don't know exactly how far that would be, but what are the odds? Even if it's not that deep, what if the sight is over a spot where the core is closer to the surface?

[@mikeschlau4501]

the earth has a diameter of 12.742 Km. the core begins in about 2900 Km depth. So.... no, no chance to reach the core.

[@mattc.310]

When the government runs the whole show, the side effects of modernization are put in the shadows and successes however small are celebrated. Good on them for giving it a shot. We'll have to see where they eventually end up with their project if they release any information as it progresses. It's intriguing what is found in these deep earth explorations. As far as their EVs flooding the market, check into them and their own EV shenanigans. Pretty interesting. Thanks for the upload.

[@ohiorichkidbeats]

Hell is to come

[@dsp4392]

Great content. I think it would definitely add to the quality of your videos to use metric units rather than imperial. Imperial units could still be overlaid for those who have a harder time getting their head around the SI and help them build an instinctive sense of it. The US will never get rid of the imperial system if people keep using it in educational materials. Help make a difference!

[@TwoBitDaVinci]

it's a really good point but more than 1/2 our audience is in the US... if that ever shifts I'm with you!

[@JohnWarner-lu8rq]

No thank you. We put a man on the moon using Imperial math.

[@teitgenengineering]

​@@TwoBitDaVinciI live in the USA and would also like if you could use metric along with imperial instead of just putting it on the screen

[@camdamcool6125]

@@TwoBitDaVinci Yea tbh science news channels like yourself should encourage using metric because that is the standard for global scientific research, instead of using imperial :/

[@ChaosRune]

@@JohnWarner-lu8rq From wikipedia: "Calculations were carried out using the metric system, but display readouts were in units of feet, feet per second, and nautical miles - units that the Apollo astronauts were accustomed to." You put that man on the moon using metric math, not imperial

[@brocmathes2276]

If you had millions of those geothermal or a few crazy massive ones (tapping a volcano, if you want a Dyson sphere.. we should start at a volcano, or lower) Would they shorten the life of the magnetic/ sphere, through the extraction of heat cooling the outer mantle… stretching the inner mantle +.. Also charged metals/pipping connected to electrical grid, how does that effect the mantle… does it make metals charged and attract them to piping or the flow of the mantle (earthquakes/odd ocean patterns/unstable weather and volcanic activity? I think no singular option is the option.

[@bobbystarchild975]

Ace video super interesting!!!!

[@cskirb2]

They dug too greedily and too deep.

[@theodethomasa6358]

5 years ago, I purchased a set of barber clippers made in China. The set only lasted two months. So I'm not excited about "Made in China." I'm more worried they will cause a worldwide catastrophe like they did with COVID with this deep hole they are drilling.

[@kimchiba4570]

How much did you pay for those.?

[@richgey1]

Iron-nitride is a powerful magnetic material, being theoretically more than twice as strong as rare earth magnets. Built from two of the most common elements on Earth iron and nitrogen, these magnets are also much cheaper than rare earth magnets.

[@mustafadanishmand64]

thanks

[@lifeisgood5794]

Nice, first time hearing about this. Makes more sense than doing this in the ocean. BTW looking forward to your report on the FDA's approval of chicken made in a lab. I know that is something you must be looking into for us.

[@mikemondano3624]

Not going to be a video. There is nothing to say. Chicken is chicken.

[@lifeisgood5794]

@@mikemondano3624 I won't be eating chicken made in a petry dish.

[@mikemondano3624]

@@lifeisgood5794 That's fine. No chicken has ever been made in a Petri dish.

[@lifeisgood5794]

@@mikemondano3624 That is where the new fake chicken starts, in a petry dish. Perhaps TwoBit does need to make a video on this to inform everyone.

[@mikemondano3624]

@@lifeisgood5794 Never used a petri dish, have you? You don't even know what they are for.