I wonder how this ends, I have seen a lot of tv shows and movies where it ends badly.
I also remember how they claimed Nuclear Energy would make electricity so cheap it would not be metered.
Posted on 03/02/2022 12:30:38 PM PST by algore
Quaise Energy, a startup out of MIT, based in Boston and Houston, recently secured $40 million in funding to help it get the first drilling rig off the drawing board.
The system works by drilling down to base rock, then firing high-power millimeter waves into the ground, without the need for complex mechanical drills that are limited by the pressure and intense heat deep into the crust.
Regular metal drills get broken or just melt beyond a certain depth, when the heat and pressure becomes too much for them to handle.
The goal is to be able to repurpose existing fossil fuel power plants, replacing burning coal with 900F heat from miles below the surface of the Earth.
The firm hope to have the first drilling platform live by 2024, the first wells producing up to 100 megawatt of geothermal energy by 2026, and fossil power plants repurposed by 2028, delivering clean energy around the world.
Being able to tap into a globally available supply of geothermal energy requires drilling much deeper into the Earth than currently possible.
The Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia holds the record for deepest produced hole, going down about seven miles, but even that isn't enough for Quaise Energy.
They suggest that drilling would need to go down to about 12 miles below the surface in order to reach rocks hot enough to power massive power plants
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I wonder how this ends, I have seen a lot of tv shows and movies where it ends badly.
I also remember how they claimed Nuclear Energy would make electricity so cheap it would not be metered.
Dutchsinse....please pick up the white courtesy phone.
What could go wrong?
The earth will crack to the core and the globe splits apart.
Then nuclear energy became evil. However, if they plan to make a backyard volcano, I recommend doing so in a place that won’t be missed. Washington DC, for instance.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1zwzru
I thought of Dr Who serial Inferno.
I haven’t even thought about that movie in at least 40 years. I really remember being excited by the idea.
Shades of Project Moho.
I liked Pertwee as the Doctor.
In this case hopefully the project Director here is not Dr. Stahlman
They only need billion of those green energy dollars to prove that the drill pipe will melt long before they reach their target…..another tax payer money pit….
It doesn't help cars that much because battery technology hasn't caught up yet.
Not a good idea. If they go deep enough Ted Kennedy might escape.
they show the plant next to a nice mountain stream.
probably just run some cooling coils, besides downstream they could have a bonus tropical fish hatchery
What could go wrong
MADNESS!! Don’t they realize they will cause Global Cooling by draining all of Earths Precious Bodily Heat from it, and trigger a GLOBAL ICE CASTATROPHE?!
THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!
Jon was good as the third Doctor.
Inferno I think is the first serial I saw.
It seems to me that the heat extracted from the earths core will someday be missed, not soon but someday.
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