Quaise Energy says it has a new plan to use the Earth's heat as a way to create virtually unlimited energy for the world.
While harnessing unlimited energy sounds like a great benefit for humanity, achieving such a thing is more difficult than it sounds. Before we can even talk about harnessing geothermal power, we must be able to reach it. 20 kilometers, or 12.4 miles, might not sound like much, but when it comes to drilling through rock, you have a lot of factors to weigh in.
First, there’s the hardness of the rock. While drills can easily penetrate the rock that makes up the surface of the Earth, as you get deeper it becomes much harder. Now pair all of that with the rising temperatures and the increase in pressure. At those depths, drill bits become basically useless. That means we’ll need a material that can withstand those conditions if we want to drill far enough to harness unlimited energy.
This is where Quaise Energy’s “gyrotron-powered drilling platform” comes into play. It’s basically a millimeter-wave drilling system, something that scientists have theorized on for years. The company says that its drilling system uses “directed energy drilling”. That essentially means the drill sends high-frequency waves through the rock to heat it up so that it basically vaporizes. This would allow us to dig deep enough to unlock access to virtually unlimited energy production.
Quaise plans to drill into the surface of the planet using convention drilling platforms. Then, when it reaches the harder rock of the Earth’s inner layers, it will switch to the new platform.Nuclear fusion reactors like this are other attempts at unlimited energy Image source: Aliaksandr Marko / Adobe
The pursuit of unlimited — or at least virtually unlimited — energy has been ongoing for decades. With
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