“This road is long, and much of the map remains blank. The biggest problem is drilling miles through hot rock, safely. If scientists can do that, however, next-generation geothermal power could supply clean energy for eons.”
“This road is long, and much of the map remains blank. The biggest problem is drilling miles through hot rock, safely. If scientists can do that, however, next-generation geothermal power could supply clean energy for eons.”
You’re right, i was being rude as well. Apologies for the rudeness.
If they can be cheaper, this may have an impact, but they dont seem to have any numbers to back up their cheapness claims? They seem to be spruiking their speed instead, but thats only one part of the cost.
And their drill tip, while fast, is a relatively uncommon piece of kit, and requires significant amount of power to run (1MW to hit 70m/s), so its probably not going to be usable in less developed areas, and scaling their processes will be interesting.
I’ll look forward to them publishing their costs when they complete their fullsize trials.
They only have to be cheaper for deep drilling which is what’s currently prohibitively expensive - traditional drilling is still used for half the job.
It’s very, very new technology but they have to start somewhere. The rest of geothermal (running the power plant itself) is figured out but a drilling deeper brings significantly more power