New DRILLING Machine Unlocks Unlimited ENERGY!?

Many companies are starting to build energy based drills. Can we finally unlock geothermal energy for everyone with this new technology?
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[@stevechance150]

Rick: "So let me guess Morty, you dropped the light saber perfectly vertical and now it's headed to the Earth's core?!"

[@raffriff42]

US Patent 3,693‚731 (Los Alamos, 1972) “A machine and method for drilling bore holes and tunnels by melting …and during operation of which the molten material may be disposed adjacent the boring zone in cracks in the rock and a vitreous wall lining of the tunnel so formed. The heat source can be electrical or nuclear…”

[@nikitaw1982]

$1.3 trillion annual spend on climate change and they've had a patent for 50 years. They could have fixed the problem many times over CC is a scam to tax co2.Everything anyone does produces co2. Global taxation scam

[@geoffgeoff143]

1 mw/h for how far at what diameter. That is a unit of energy, not power. You are mixing apples with millimetres.

[@markawbolton]

Thank you for picking up on that. I wondered of any one wouild.... Like so many of these "Wow Man I love Science !! " the level of Literacy is abysmal. Wiht deep drilling Geothermal the thermal energy is important .. not simply the temprature of the rocks at depth. How much heat is stored in the strata. How permeable is it. Like water underground. Sure dig a well till you hit water but how much can you extract WRT to how quickly the aquifer is replenished. It is intencely irritating to me because of the Limitless Energy bandwagoning that goes on ..so much snake oil ... When we need a lot more energy than we have now e will need a technology that will work not just a Marketing Scam.

[@BariumCobaltNitrog3n]

@@markawbolton You mentioned literacy, the ability to read and write. But you don't read what you've written and this is a mess.

[@Tech_Planet]

Yes, good point! It's compared to a 21 cm/ 8 inch hole. It's all-in estimate of the cost per megawatt-hour (MWh) but they are using 1 MWh gyrotron so it's probably a low number. GA Drilling already changed their numbers multiple times so I don't like throwing straight technical comparisons, so I tried basing it on the minimum energy requirements/geothermal well diameters to give people an idea.

[@maliq4]

@@Tech_Planet See, you've done it again. I think you may not be qualified for this field. You said in the video "... hundreds of megawatts per hour..." - this makes no sense. Like @markawbolton said above, you are confusing energy and power units. And now you did it again, in reverse, by saying "1MWh gyrotron". Gyrotrons are rated on their power, not an amount of energy. You are clearly reading these figures from somewhere and then mis-stating them here.

[@kirikset]

When you say "it consumes 1MWhour", i think you are using incorrect units. It is "1MW", no need to add hours to power consumption.

[@benmcreynolds8581]

I really hope we can advance our drilling technology to utilize those laser/plasma ideas that harden up the bore hole wall as it goes. If we can get Styropyro to collaborate with certain people, who knows? Maybe laser, plasma tech is possible to see advancement here soon. Lol

[@ag135i]

Only a cone shaped carbide drill can reach the maximum distance possible but we will need to constantly replace them and try to keep them cool, replacing the drill head again and again is the biggest challenge.

[@fredd629]

They have had carbide drill heads that can with stand 500degree Temps for a decade at least .

[@DaveEtchells]

Interesting, I didn’t know they could handle that much heat. My impression has been that the microwave approach could potentially be much faster. I’d think they would just use microwaves all the way down, but maybe the cost per unit of depth is higher than conventional rotary drilling until you hit a certain depth. (As you mention, on deep holes changing the bit is the huge bottleneck; they need to pull out and disassemble the whole drill stack, replace the head, then reassemble and lower it back down. I wonder how long that takes for, say, a 2km hole? Anyone know?

[@TimDavies1955]

Needs plasma cutting to 10miles

[@fredd629]

@@DaveEtchells My friend worked for a lubricant distributor that serviced industry including mining and oil drillers .He would give me from time to time the Trade Magazines to read. This is where I read about the New High Temp drilling heads .That was at least Decade ago.

[@josephdelp87]

Russia tried it. The bit wouldn't go any further not even a cm.

[@stormbringermornblade8811]

you know the EPA or some such will jack this in courts for ever.

[@mitseraffej5812]

Nothing is unlimited, not even the heat/ energy contained within the earth. Possibly unlimited in terms of human civilisation but it seems that whatever humanity does has some unforeseen consequence. When the Industrial Revolution began I’m sure no one every dreamt of the damage that burning fossil fuels would end up doing. At the time we had very little knowledge of how fragile the planet’s atmosphere and oceans were. I think a cool apocalyptic movie would be how humanity sucked so much energy out of the earths core that it solidified and the magnetic field turned off. Slowly the atmosphere was blown off by the solar wind and we all lived in pressurised houses with reticulated air. To bad if you can’t afford to pay the monthly bill.

[@terryspeicher9953]

In the 70s NASA developed a ceramic heated to great temperatures that simply melted its way down pushing material to the side making a glass bore as it went down -though I haven't see references to it in years-- seemed like a great idea and was elegant in its simplicity

[@charlesblithfield6182]

Right off the bat I’m curious what the payback time is for the more intense methods, both economic payback and in terms of energy expended vs energy generated.

[@col.johnson9938]

just love the fact that humans continue to find ways to to destroy the planet in order to make their lives better. Instead of working with what is at hand

[@y0uCantHandle]

Scotty, set phasers to maximum!

[@venturefanatic9262]

How about drilling a hole in deep ocean floor over a thinner crustal area. Install Sterling Engines using the Deep Cold Ocean to offset the heat from such a deep bore hole. No Steam or Pluming needed.

[@ag135i]

Equipment can't easily survive at such depths because of intense weight and pressure of water over it maybe that's why it's still not being tried.

[@jean-claudefrancoisbaroudd730]

The salt in the water is really a problem for maintenance

[@busterhyman103]

Doing good...but that vocal drop speech affectation at the end of each sentence is critically annoying and drives away even your most staunch followers.

[@markawbolton]

Yes I am very ceitical of amaturish Narration too. Espcially heart braking when the quality of the program is ortherwise good and the Producer comes from a good place. Like Anton Petrov... lovely bloke and facinating ttopics... but I have to turn off the sound .. turn on CC and read the subs. His wild sing song pitch excursion are not broacast quality.

[@Tech_Planet]

I hired many different narrators before, people did not like them because they didn't understand the topics. I could always get one for more outside topics like this one though if I write the scripts, definitely a possibility

[@wstavis3135]

​@@Tech_Planethere is a lesson for you from someone who has made a living with his voice: ignore a critic like the poster. He offers no advice, merely complaints. Your speech patterns are your speech patterns. You can work on them, the key way to do it, is listen to yourself recorded. You won't sound at all like you think you do, but you can notice things you think you can improve. For better value, listen to yourself with a friend whom you trust to be honest. They will hear things you do not. I'm glad you ended with the graviton drilling as I personally think that is the most promising of the newer technologies.

[@AdamWest-qp3yp]

He’s not as bad as that one guy with a lisp and upward inflection at the end of every sentence.

[@flutieflambert]

@@Tech_Planet Your voice is fine and there’s no need for you to conform to some arbitrary norm any more than women need to conform their bodies to some arbitrary standard to please assholes who don’t accept women for who they are but instead want to control them. The information/content you provide is what is important and if some people are so sensitive they have to have information delivered to them in a specific way, then that’s their problem which narrows their world. (Can you imagine someone making that comment to Stephen Hawking?)

[@robevans2114]

I wonder if we could drill next to existing power plants whose energy could be used when excess power is available?

[@jupiler02]

Yes, as far as I understood, this is possible and use the existing power plants.

[@janewray-mccann2133]

Replace the tungsten carbide inserts with osmiridium for starters as it will take the enormous heat generated by extreme deep holes. The bit itself should be manufactured with titanium steel. We have the technology to replace bits in the hole already but the real problem with geo thermal holes is to keep them clear as the steam generated is not just steam it is most often a composite of deleterious solutions such as calcium and barium which inevitably clogs the annulus reducing the steam pressure. Keep at it all the same. Excellent vid.

[@__WJK__]

Seems they should be able to keep the holes clean, by re-running the plasma/lasers down the bore, as needed.

[@barabolak]

I bet they have gigantic nuclear drilling devices that are capable of making entire cities under the ground

[@everettstormy]

There was a Russian nuclear mole that could travel under ground really quickly. They supposedly stopped the project

[@barabolak]

@@everettstormy russians make A LOT of stuff up. They're great liars historically and currently

[@AlaskaSlay]

What happens if you hit water? North of the Alaska range around Fairbanks, its almost impossible drill without punching through a significant layer of ground water at some point. Just curious if it would function going through ground water

[@tejishtosh1491]

This idea i imagined when I was in college , but in my idea there is a slice difference that was to drill near to a volcano 🌋 to get enough heat for steam generation 😅

[@victoryfirst2878]

I like the video fella. The problem is TALK IS CHEAP. No one want to make anything to buck the system. I would bet that the petroleum industry will do everything in there power to stop this from happening. The most corrupt entity on the earth.

[@thebigdog2295]

They're already doing it now, when's the last time you heard of a hydroelectric dam being built. Somewhere on this platform is a documentary about the last man who built a geothermal power plant, and the lengths he had to go through to get it built. Big oil isn't the only ones doing it. The big electric companies have do their best to keep new sources from being built. Look up what they did with the Tennessee Valley Authority, only a small percentage of dams were built with power plants, just to keep prices up.

[@stever197037]

Graphine conducts heat over a long distance with little loss almost instantly. Just transfer the heat from deep for power. No need for turbines with a large bank of Themo electric generators.

[@vylbird8014]

TEGs have crap efficiency compared to turbines. They do have their uses - they have near-perfect reliability, happy to operate for decades without servicing - but their efficiency is awful.

[@stever197037]

@@vylbird8014 yes but turbines require a lot hotter water or high pressure steam. A teg can make power with less.

[@methylene5]

You need to learn the relationship between thermodynamics and efficiency. Peltier junctions (TEGs) are notoriously inefficient.

[@chuckaddison5134]

Waveguide is easy, it's been made since about WW2. Millimeter wave generating equipment is pretty commonplace too. Both are everyday items in the military inventories. The challenges are going to be the temperatures around and aft of the drill head. Molten rock AKA lava is about the same temperature that steel melts at. So it will take some pretty expensive alloys to do this. Not impossible just challenging. Assuming the power requirements are not understated.

[@vylbird8014]

Millimeter wave generating equipment, yes. But at the power levels needed for this, not so much - you're going to need about a megawatt of output. Doable, yes, but lots of custom heavy engineering to make not just the gyrotron but also the power supply for it.

[@atlet1]

@@vylbird8014 what about coolingen and tungsten or other heat resistant skin?

[@timkahn2813]

everything can be used up over time. but this is the second biggest source we have . the sun being number one . i dont count wind . although its said to be 300 time more from off shore wine then we now need.

[@Mallchad]

there's lots of energy in wind but it's super hard to capture and induces a lot of mechanical stress hence why we chase things like photo-voltaic cells Solar and geothermal is the only thing any self respecting Type-1 civilisation would use with nuclear fusion and fission where needed

[@douginorlando6260]

Low cost tunneling would be a huge game changer. Urban regions could eliminate the need for surface roads. Water transportation under mountain ranges could turn deserts into farmland gardens while avoiding pumping water thousands of feet vertical.

[@a-a-ron4679]

The people in NYC may disagree with you at this very moment.

[@bazoo513]

@@a-a-ron4679 Why?

[@a-a-ron4679]

@@bazoo513 because the city is or was flooded. That’s why

[@bazoo513]

@@a-a-ron4679 Flooding or not, NYC _depends_ on tunnels, for everything from potable water to sewer to steam to comm cables to subway. And some of them are _very_ deep.

[@a-a-ron4679]

@@bazoo513 yeah I know

[@RoboArc]

Drilling is old, plasma would be bad fkn ass 😂 it would also be a very straight hole. Think a CNC EDM robot but as a drill. I say we do it, but we need a way to make power better 😎 need more Kv

[@robertgaines-tulsa]

I hope this new energy based drilling technology takes off. We need more energy tech if we are to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and have more environmentally friendly tech. Nuclear bothers too many people and isn't cheap. If by some miracle fusion works, it will likely be fore expensive as well. Geothermal is a really good answer to all this.

[@paulflute]

seems to me that a large power requirement should be irrelevant if the purpose of the whole ti access near unlimited free safe power.. sounds like ti will pay for itself fairly quickly ...???

[@viruslab1]

sounds like not a good idea to cold down the core of our planet.

[@africanelectron751]

You could absolutely use diesel generators to generate 8mw. Might take a few trucks to deliver them and fuel them tho.

[@vylbird8014]

Could. But then, if you're drilling for geothermal power, you're going to have to run a high-capacity grid connection to the site anyway to get the power out. Might as well just use that to power the drill.

[@alterbart7916]

Power of hundreds of megawatt *PER HOUR* ?😅🤣😂😅🤣😂😅🤣😂

[@l0I0I0I0]

Im interested but the first thing I would want to know is, the company owner and management trurthy or will they cheat you? Thats most important to me.

[@historyisfake9153]

Phil shnieder was talking bout these in his area 51 speeches. Another link proving he's right xxx

[@hu5116]

I think these ideas are all on the right track but each has detractors. Some combination of techniques might prove useful

[@cfalletta7220]

You know I agree with all of these clean energy methods but the problem is that the oil companies have a very strong grip on the government and as soon as hurt the pocketbooks the more they are not going to transition to clean energy systems even if it is possible ✌️❤️👍

[@unpopuIaropinion]

Lately everyone is supposedly caring about global warming. Have you thought about the implications of this energy source ?

[@theotherandrew5540]

The implications of this energy source are that fossil fuelled power plants can be directly converted to using geothermal steam to run their generators by displacing the need for fossil fuel.

[@jonnyfatboy7563]

the US military's 1,000+ kilowatt laser should do the trick then 😅

[@iancormie9916]

One has to wonder how they would stabilize the wellbore when they go deep. One also has to wonder what will happen when they hit very porous water wet zones.

[@andylaauk]

It'll never be used because the climate grift is too profitable.

[@SrenelyDiscord]

It should have been our #1 development after sending man to the moon.

[@Chobaca]

Retrofit every coal power plant on earth with geo thermal is what I think

[@martialbroussard8028]

HOW WOULD YOU BSTEER THESE HOOKUPS IN DIRECTIONAL HOLES?

[@BariumCobaltNitrog3n]

shhh you'll wake behbeh

[@XimCines]

I stepped on this technology im April this year and thought it was a big deal. Making electricity from geothermal from almost any place in the world would be the most efficient and green way of generating electricity. Solar panels are not reliable and uses rare materials. Wind are also a problem in material issues. Nuclear is good but people hate it. This can be what we need to help our planet alongside with artificial photosyntesis for carbon capture.

[@UberMick]

What happens if they hit an LNG pocket?

[@kastenolsen9577]

Look at the technologies like the Rodin Coil, The Spatial Resonance Induction Transformer, or the Crystal Energy Generator that have been supressed.

[@billmacrae1924]

please tone down the background muisc

[@ahmetmutlu348]

I think main problem is keeping the line open as heat will clog te pipe... anyway new archiewements/upgrades in this technology will help making wenus's potential energy accessible... whch i guess has extreme potential as its surface is too hot and upper atmosphere is too cold... or night side... i think vens has more potential then mars... as its bigger as 2 adventages ower mas ie too high an too cold place which meand energy 😊 and lots of chemcals that can be used for lots of things ..

[@NekoNinja13]

sounds like the oil/gas industries worst nightmare im certain it will go swimmingly and publicly yield great results, and definitely wont be sabotaged, legally bound and inoperable for years, and or silently "forgotten" so that people dont remember to ask where their infinite and affordable energy is 🙃

[@YouT-DJ]

One of the aspirations of many a scifi story. Some day. What about gas pockets and extreme back pressure?

[@gijoe41688]

how is the holes cleared of debris?

[@truetech4158]

By squeezing them, like a pimple that is miles deep until the very long strand of spaghetti reaches its entirety, but then after that is removed, a fountain of endless fire pours out until the plastic surgeons move in and seal it up, like that one time when brad pitt had that major pimple that required surgical intervention.

[@alberthartl8885]

The rock is vaporized so it leaves the bore as a gas.

[@michael-vl1mn]

The vapourised rock is transported up the hole using high-pressure Argon.

[@srotovnikabc6919]

It would be more reasonable to find a practically usable heat accumulator from summer to winter than to risk further problems with the consequences of drilling.

[@defiant18]

There was a guy in USA who developed a high pressure steam drill. He built a working version that drilled thru a metre of granite in a few minutes

[@Patiboke]

This is not about the drilling tech, but I'm afraid if they would harvest lots and lots of geothermal energy it would significantly cool down the Earths crust and some of the liquid mantle underneath would become solid. Now you have a thicker crust, so more time between earthquakes but more powerful earthquakes. It wouldn't happen soon but look at what we've done with CO2...

[@snorfallupagus6014]

Deeper...faster...deeper..faster.Deeper.Faster!

[@themacker894]

Nice job and excellent analysis.

[@Etheoma]

Dude, I don't think you realize how expensive the machine could be and it still be amazingly economically viable, assuming they can get 75MW from a single hole 75MW of natural gas would cost $322.5 per second given the cost of natural gas at wholesale is 0.0043 USD per kWh which in a year would cost 10.17 billion USD in natural gas. Assuming quaise's machine can last 5 years of operation, with maintenance doubling that cost, a 20% margin and it takes them 100 days to drill a 20km hole like they claim, they could dig 18.25 holes before the machine died. Also assuming that investors would like to see a return on investment within a year which is pretty accurate the machine could cost 74.2 billion investors would be investing in building geothermal plants because it would offer a return on investment of almost 2x in a year because it's half the cost of natural gas per kWh, and for every year after that you being 10.17 billion USD better off than building a natural gas power plant. WITH THE MACHINE COSTING 74.2 BILLION, the machine can be expensive, it's fine.

[@WeTheLittlePeople]

Awesome. Dreaming one day of someone pouring waste water contaminates into a geo-thermal pocket to remove the waste, recover the water vapor and turn it all into energy and remove pollution with the same system. Should be doable. Advances in ceramic pipes would help.

[@ghostmantagshome-er6pb]

A.I BOT ACCOUNT

[@shahidnazirgujjar6510]

Geothermal energy extraction through ABONDEND OIL AND GAS AND GAS AND GAS WELLS through closed loop system

[@STYX-a-Lot]

Love it… At whatever costs it takes to drill a hole for each neighborhood… Once it’s done, we all got free power. I had conceived a way to use a zirconium dioxide pipe with a u-turn on the bottom of it to go to the bottom of the ocean and dip into the magma all along the oceanic ridge where tectonic plates separate, and heat from magma is near the surface. It would be like a coffee percolator, or thermal siphon. Water going in the pipe would be 40,000 psi but would never reach the surface of the ocean because it turns to hyper sonic steam. Theoretically you could separate hydrogen and oxygen via thermolysis. Or, create electricity and use electrolysis. Sand entering the pipe could form fiberglass pipelines by a centrifuge that could head for the continents. Clean water could be stored as high as 1 mile above the ocean in giant bowls of frothed glass for clean water pressure to be used on land. Also to power homes by water pressure. The salt removed would be added as the water returns to the ocean once it has filled the rivers etc. no more energy shortage, and no more water shortage. Unusable amounts of hydrogen fuel etc. Artificial Geysers if you will that can form themselves without human intervention. Also, floating islands of foamed glass that produce energy by the tides. People could move onto the snow white mountainous islands and enjoy homes carved out of the foamed glass. The ultimate pipe dream. Floating sky islands made of sea gel foam the float high in the sky to gather enormous static electricity and blot out the harmful rays of the sun could also create rain, or stop it. You could literally reverse the footprint of man by adding ice to the polar ice caps etc. maybe A.I. can work out the details. A.I. could also figure a way to use hummingbird muscle cells to wrap around a shaft and make motors that run on sugar water, and electric impulses. This way people could have high pressure inflatable wings made of graphene that roll up instantly in a wearable backpack so you just think about flying, and you are. I used to daydream a lot….hmmmm.

[@bazoo513]

3:33 - I nitpick like this only on good videos: "hundreds of megawatts per hour" makes no sense. Either "hundreds of MW" (power) or "hundreds of MWh each hour" (energy). As the former implies the latter, it would be preferred. Similar, "it only consumes about one MWh" around 4_24; "it only needs about one MW" or "it only consumes about one MWh per hour"; preferably the former. Why is it that some, even technically savvy people, keep confusing power and energy ?

[@vg23air]

yay, lets vent the geothermal and cool the core of the planet, and see what happens next, yay, lets dill petroleum out of the planet and burn it and see what happens next

[@autohypnotic6750]

Wave guides don't need to be straight. Think fiber optics. I think the main problem would be the vaporized rock liquefying the bore hole on the way up.

[@KJAJOBRIEN]

Remember that directional core bore drilling was very expensive at it's inception. Today, it's so cost effective that it's everywhere.

[@eclipsos8187]

Easy solution. Find location that has high geothermal gradient. Get mobile nuclear powerplant which we already have on aircraft carriers. Build a cooling tower real quick as there obviously no ocean. Then use nuclear powerplant to drill in one spot and make a plant. Check energy efficiency. Keep drilling in nearby areas using nuclear plant. Once energy needs are met use already existing geothermal plants to provide energy for continue drilling in local. Move nuclear plant to new area and repeat. At that point the energy drilling mechanism can be scaled up for more rapid drilling. Sell energy cheaply to local. Become monopoly basically guarenteed.

[@Etheoma]

Ah dude, you should have went with UNLIMITED POWER!!! in the tile, such a wasted opportunity.

[@plummyplumage]

@4:12 "very interesting machine because it's *a very high interest diffusion research* so it's definitely interesting to see an offset technology be used in drilling but more importantly it only consumes about *one megawatt hour*" (emphasis added). Do you simply mean that diffusion research is interesting? (I wouldn't ask if I didn't agree with what that apparently means.) Did you mean to say one megawatt /per/ hour?

[@luzi29]

I hope there will be investment into this technology as it seems to be the only truly sustainable solutions for replacing hydrocarbons. Especially as it serves for electricity generation and be used as heat source for homes and industry 24/7

[@JoshMarshain]

Glad we're at least trying stuff, we kinda have to, my concern is how many locations are ideal for this to work without causing dangerous knock-on effects, even if successful.

[@alberthartl8885]

GA drilling's plasmabit is directional so would be complementary to Eavor's design. Quaise Energy requires a straight line. They just go deeper to get the heat required.

[@bazoo513]

We should now shy from high cost of these technologies. We need reliable base load power - it is either this or nuclear. As strong proponent of nuclear energy I might be, I cannot ignore the fact that most of cost lowering promises of SMR are yet to materialize, and (trans) continental transmission grids and utility scale energy storage needed tp wind and solar to play that role are expensive. too, with the former also being politically vulnerable. In the end, we will need _everything,_ from conventional gigawatt-scale fission reactors all the way down to residential solar with perhap 100kWh worth of storage.

[@anttikuisma6283]

Great video. Thank you. Im 100% sure that geothermal will have big role in our future energy production. We will see huge development in the are of drilling technology.

[@owenwilson25]

Italy is just 3km on top of a bulging supervolcano that could/will kill all humans in the northern hemisphere, or power all Europe for the next ten thousand years (a potential win win for Italy & Europe)

[@eveningstarnm3107]

"Unlimited energy"? I will never view any content produced by this channel again. I'm blocking you from my feed.

[@jamiebee1642]

V.I.R.G.I.L is the 🐐 of all drills. The Core, one of the best terrible movies that's worth watching.

[@jepleas9159]

Eavor is drilling deep with advanced conventional drilling equipment and expects their first commercial geothermal plant to start operating in 2024.

[@waynegosson1793]

Is it just steam we are after down there. Why do we need to go so deep. And what are the consequences of opening up the earth that deep. Exactly we don't know. And should be taking thee situations very seriously and these companies should be held accountable for 100 % of anything related to any that even considered an incident during and for the entire time that these hotels or facilities are open and even after they are closed. For who knows. 500 years afterwards.

[@derektomlinson6514]

Is tampering with the internal forces of the earth a wise decision to make. ?????????? what could possibly go wrong! lol

[@vandalorian8777]

Isn’t this how the planet Krypton exploded?

[@michael-vl1mn]

Krypton is a fictional planet it does not exist in the universe we exist in.

[@banto1]

But we were always told that a nuclear power plant could meltdown and it would create a hole through the earth, reaching china. They even made a movie with Jane Fonda called the China Syndrome to make everyone believe it was true. Shouldn't we just get Jane to show us how to build a nuclear power plant that can make these holes a lot easier than drilling or using fancy lasers?

[@BallBusta]

Honestly, if no company is willing to out drill the kola superdeep borehole, I don't foresee geothermal energy production exploding into the future any time soon.

[@theretrogamer5843]

What would be the implications of removing that much heat energy from the crust?

[@maneatingduck]

None. The heat is replenished from the earth's magma layer (mantle), and there is _a lot_ of it, with a practically inexhaustible supply of heat energy. If you compare it to emptying the ocean with a shot glass, this would have a lot less impact than that :)

[@13thbiosphere]

Consider the possibility of heating a tungsten drill bit to 3,000 Celsius

[@That_Freedom_Guy]

Very nice! Non contact drilling. Excellent!👍🏻

[@viniciusnoyoutube]

If it can generate a enormous amount of energy, the spend of a very amount of electricity is justified and paid back in some years.

[@RandyZimmerman-pp5wj]

Until you have a working prototype it won't be cost effective so it will still be the poor cousin so I'm to speak

[@Nehmo]

Anybody who gets watts and watt-hours confused isn't well-versed on the subject.

[@Kakalacki]

And if you could drill in an existing coal plant you already have the infrastructure in place

[@The1stDukeDroklar]

I think it would be a much better investment than fusion which is pie-in-the-sky.

[@xyzct]

We really need to bring in some gender studies majors to solve these vexing problems.

[@alphauno6614]

Why don't we just pour water in volcanos and make steam that way?

[@hansdampf640]

Suck the heat out of the core?? sounds like a really stupid idea....

[@KennethC43]

Leave it up to humans to make boiling water complicated.

[@jayztoob]

Sorry, you lost me at, "hundreds of megawatts per hour".

[@jaswinderkaur-si9lw]

Quintillion and quintillion dollars business of heat electricity

[@markdavis8888]

Drilling holes in the Earth has caused much trouble

[@SubmitTheKraken]

Wait. They want to drill a hole to the earth's core? Right?

[@johnssmith4005]

Don't dig too deep guys or else you'll wake the Balrog

[@Zindo.Majesty.HisMajesty]

Not sure we should be putting holes that far down.

[@alexanderchenf1]

If geothermal is truly to be exploited, Hawaii will replace Texas as the energy hub.

[@michael-vl1mn]

no, it would not.

[@cosmicpsyops4529]

We will have unlimited energy when we begin investing in our education and stop getting inebriated on petroleum.

[@polarper8165]

What is not every pil company involver in this…