Quaise says it has a plan, and the technology, to drill deeper than ever before and unlock the vast geothermal power of the Earth to re-power fossil-fired electricity plants with green energy - Quaise
Posted on 02/25/2022 11:11:06 AM PST by Red Badger
MIT spin-off Quaise says it's going to use hijacked fusion technology to drill the deepest holes in history, unlocking clean, virtually limitless, supercritical geothermal energy that can re-power fossil-fuelled power plants all over the world.
The heat beneath our feet
Everyone knows the Earth's core is hot, but maybe the scale of it still has the power to surprise. Temperatures in the iron center of the core are estimated to be around 5,200 °C (9,392 °F), generated by heat from radioactive elements decaying combining with heat that still remains from the very formation of the planet – an event of cataclysmic violence when a swirling cloud of gas and dust was crushed into a ball by its own gravity.
Where there's access to heat, there's harvestable geothermal energy. And there's so much heat below the Earth's surface, according to Paul Woskov, a senior fusion research engineer at MIT, that tapping just 0.1 percent of it could supply the entire world's energy needs for more than 20 million years.
The problem is access. Where subterranean heat sources naturally occur close to the surface, easily accessible and close enough to a relevant power grid for economically viable transmission, geothermal becomes a rare example of totally reliable, round-the-clock green power generation. The Sun stops shining, the wind stops blowing, but the rock's always hot. Of course, these conditions are fairly rare, and as a result, geothermal currently supplies only around 0.3 percent of global energy consumption.
The deepest holes in human history are not deep enough If we could drill deep enough, we could put geothermal power stations just about anywhere we wanted them. But that's harder than it sounds. The Earth's crust varies in thickness between about 5-75 km (3-47 miles), the thinnest parts tending to be way out in deep ocean.
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Quaise says it has a plan, and the technology, to drill deeper than ever before and unlock the vast geothermal power of the Earth to re-power fossil-fired electricity plants with green energy - Quaise
So releasing geothermal heat won’t contribute to global warming?
Thar she blows!
This sounds like the opening premise for a Roland Emmerich film.
Let’s drill into the magma! What could possibly go wrong???...............
It’s ‘natural’................
Uh, won’t ultra-deep geothermal DRILL POINTS cause EARTHQUAKES?
Gore on the core said it was “several million degrees”. Who do you believe /sarc
How long will the environmental impact statement take to go through? Can’t drill towards the chewy chocolate center until all the paperwork is done.
Global cooling!
Global warming is a scam. What I worry about is if this becomes prevalent enough and lasts long enough the. We will actually cool down the Earth's mantle enough to stop plate tectonics in some areas.
It's far better to enrich the biosphere with carbon.
There’s a name for a place which allows magma’s heat to rise to the surface.
It’s called a volcano.
So, they just need to drill down far enough to get to the point where it is hot enough. About 3 miles.
As soon as they get just one of these things to work, oil futures will take a major hit.
I put their chances at success at about 1%. Big payoff if they really do hit. Like in poker, table odds versus hand odds. Table odds are $1Billion to chase $1Trillion [1000:1], hand odds appear to be 100:1. Worth it.
Didn’t the Weekly World News warn us about doing this?
https://weeklyworldnews.com/paranormal/3060/oil-drill-opens-hole-into-hell/
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