HyperSciences Wants To Drill Into The Earth With A Huge Gun Stick 'em up By Dave Gershgorn Posted July 23, 2015  46 Hypersciences A head-on view of the projectile Hyperscience will use to bore into the Earth's crust. It’s no secret—there’s a lot of energy held just a few thousand feet under Earth’s surface. To harness any sizable amount of our planet’s underlying geothermal energy for steam power, we would have to bore more than two miles into the crust. Unfortunately, the current drilling process is prohibitively expensive for most interested parties, ranging from $5 to 20 million depending...