US Patent 3,693‚731 (Los Alamos, 1972) “A machine and method for drilling bore holes and tunnels by melting …and during operation of which the molten material may be disposed adjacent the boring zone in cracks in the rock and a vitreous wall lining of the tunnel so formed. The heat source can be electrical or nuclear…”

Rick: "So let me guess Morty, you dropped the light saber perfectly vertical and now it's headed to the Earth's core?!"

In the 70s NASA developed a ceramic heated to great temperatures that simply melted its way down pushing material to the side making a glass bore as it went down -though I haven't see references to it in years-- seemed like a great idea and was elegant in its simplicity

Only a cone shaped carbide drill can reach the maximum distance possible but we will need to constantly replace them and try to keep them cool, replacing the drill head again and again is the biggest challenge.

Scotty, set phasers to maximum!

How about drilling a hole in deep ocean floor over a thinner crustal area. Install Sterling Engines using the Deep Cold Ocean to offset the heat from such a deep bore hole. No Steam or Pluming needed.

Right off the bat I’m curious what the payback time is for the more intense methods, both economic payback and in terms of energy expended vs energy generated.

1 mw/h for how far at what diameter. That is a unit of energy, not power. You are mixing apples with millimetres.

I really hope we can advance our drilling technology to utilize those laser/plasma ideas that harden up the bore hole wall as it goes. If we can get Styropyro to collaborate with certain people, who knows? Maybe laser, plasma tech is possible to see advancement here soon. Lol

I wonder if we could drill next to existing power plants whose energy could be used when excess power is available?

Nice job and excellent analysis.

I bet they have gigantic nuclear drilling devices that are capable of making entire cities under the ground

This idea i imagined when I was in college , but in my idea there is a slice difference that was to drill near to a volcano 🌋 to get enough heat for steam generation 😅

Replace the tungsten carbide inserts with osmiridium for starters as it will take the enormous heat generated by extreme deep holes. The bit itself should be manufactured with titanium steel. We have the technology to replace bits in the hole already but the real problem with geo thermal holes is to keep them clear as the steam generated is not just steam it is most often a composite of deleterious solutions such as calcium and barium which inevitably clogs the annulus reducing the steam pressure. Keep at it all the same. Excellent vid.

Thank you for sharing this video, it was something I'd never seen before and was fascinated by the technology to drill deeper and faster.

Very nice! Non contact drilling. Excellent!👍🏻

There was a guy in USA who developed a high pressure steam drill. He built a working version that drilled thru a metre of granite in a few minutes

One of the aspirations of many a scifi story. Some day. What about gas pockets and extreme back pressure?

Graphine conducts heat over a long distance with little loss almost instantly. Just transfer the heat from deep for power. No need for turbines with a large bank of Themo electric generators.

Great video. Thank you. Im 100% sure that geothermal will have big role in our future energy production. We will see huge development in the are of drilling technology.

One has to wonder how they would stabilize the wellbore when they go deep. One also has to wonder what will happen when they hit very porous water wet zones.

Waveguide is easy, it's been made since about WW2. Millimeter wave generating equipment is pretty commonplace too. Both are everyday items in the military inventories. The challenges are going to be the temperatures around and aft of the drill head. Molten rock AKA lava is about the same temperature that steel melts at. So it will take some pretty expensive alloys to do this. Not impossible just challenging. Assuming the power requirements are not understated.

You could absolutely use diesel generators to generate 8mw. Might take a few trucks to deliver them and fuel them tho.

Easy solution. Find location that has high geothermal gradient. Get mobile nuclear powerplant which we already have on aircraft carriers. Build a cooling tower real quick as there obviously no ocean. Then use nuclear powerplant to drill in one spot and make a plant. Check energy efficiency. Keep drilling in nearby areas using nuclear plant. Once energy needs are met use already existing geothermal plants to provide energy for continue drilling in local. Move nuclear plant to new area and repeat. At that point the energy drilling mechanism can be scaled up for more rapid drilling. Sell energy cheaply to local. Become monopoly basically guarenteed.

I hope this new energy based drilling technology takes off. We need more energy tech if we are to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and have more environmentally friendly tech. Nuclear bothers too many people and isn't cheap. If by some miracle fusion works, it will likely be fore expensive as well. Geothermal is a really good answer to all this.

Look at the technologies like the Rodin Coil, The Spatial Resonance Induction Transformer, or the Crystal Energy Generator that have been supressed.

Low cost tunneling would be a huge game changer. Urban regions could eliminate the need for surface roads. Water transportation under mountain ranges could turn deserts into farmland gardens while avoiding pumping water thousands of feet vertical.

I think these ideas are all on the right track but each has detractors. Some combination of techniques might prove useful

Eavor is drilling deep with advanced conventional drilling equipment and expects their first commercial geothermal plant to start operating in 2024.

everything can be used up over time. but this is the second biggest source we have . the sun being number one . i dont count wind . although its said to be 300 time more from off shore wine then we now need.

Retrofit every coal power plant on earth with geo thermal is what I think

Deeper...faster...deeper..faster.Deeper.Faster!

seems to me that a large power requirement should be irrelevant if the purpose of the whole ti access near unlimited free safe power.. sounds like ti will pay for itself fairly quickly ...???

Consider the possibility of heating a tungsten drill bit to 3,000 Celsius

I stepped on this technology im April this year and thought it was a big deal. Making electricity from geothermal from almost any place in the world would be the most efficient and green way of generating electricity. Solar panels are not reliable and uses rare materials. Wind are also a problem in material issues. Nuclear is good but people hate it. This can be what we need to help our planet alongside with artificial photosyntesis for carbon capture.

Honestly, if no company is willing to out drill the kola superdeep borehole, I don't foresee geothermal energy production exploding into the future any time soon.

GA drilling's plasmabit is directional so would be complementary to Eavor's design. Quaise Energy requires a straight line. They just go deeper to get the heat required.

It would be more reasonable to find a practically usable heat accumulator from summer to winter than to risk further problems with the consequences of drilling.

the US military's 1,000+ kilowatt laser should do the trick then 😅

I think main problem is keeping the line open as heat will clog te pipe... anyway new archiewements/upgrades in this technology will help making wenus's potential energy accessible... whch i guess has extreme potential as its surface is too hot and upper atmosphere is too cold... or night side... i think vens has more potential then mars... as its bigger as 2 adventages ower mas ie too high an too cold place which meand energy 😊 and lots of chemcals that can be used for lots of things ..

What happens if they hit an LNG pocket?

Phil shnieder was talking bout these in his area 51 speeches. Another link proving he's right xxx

You know I agree with all of these clean energy methods but the problem is that the oil companies have a very strong grip on the government and as soon as hurt the pocketbooks the more they are not going to transition to clean energy systems even if it is possible ✌️❤️👍

HOW WOULD YOU BSTEER THESE HOOKUPS IN DIRECTIONAL HOLES?

lmfao its like the movie core

Awesome. Dreaming one day of someone pouring waste water contaminates into a geo-thermal pocket to remove the waste, recover the water vapor and turn it all into energy and remove pollution with the same system. Should be doable. Advances in ceramic pipes would help.

When you say "it consumes 1MWhour", i think you are using incorrect units. It is "1MW", no need to add hours to power consumption.

Nothing is unlimited, not even the heat/ energy contained within the earth. Possibly unlimited in terms of human civilisation but it seems that whatever humanity does has some unforeseen consequence. When the Industrial Revolution began I’m sure no one every dreamt of the damage that burning fossil fuels would end up doing. At the time we had very little knowledge of how fragile the planet’s atmosphere and oceans were. I think a cool apocalyptic movie would be how humanity sucked so much energy out of the earths core that it solidified and the magnetic field turned off. Slowly the atmosphere was blown off by the solar wind and we all lived in pressurised houses with reticulated air. To bad if you can’t afford to pay the monthly bill.

how is the holes cleared of debris?

What would be the implications of removing that much heat energy from the crust?

just love the fact that humans continue to find ways to to destroy the planet in order to make their lives better. Instead of working with what is at hand

Isn’t this how the planet Krypton exploded?

Don't dig too deep guys or else you'll wake the Balrog

And if you could drill in an existing coal plant you already have the infrastructure in place

Italy is just 3km on top of a bulging supervolcano that could/will kill all humans in the northern hemisphere, or power all Europe for the next ten thousand years (a potential win win for Italy & Europe)

I like the video fella. The problem is TALK IS CHEAP. No one want to make anything to buck the system. I would bet that the petroleum industry will do everything in there power to stop this from happening. The most corrupt entity on the earth.

Dig a hole like this in Yellowstone or Tambora and see what happens.

Geothermal energy extraction through ABONDEND OIL AND GAS AND GAS AND GAS WELLS through closed loop system

Power of hundreds of megawatt *PER HOUR* ?😅🤣😂😅🤣😂😅🤣😂

Not sure we should be putting holes that far down.

Power with SMR?

you know the EPA or some such will jack this in courts for ever.

Geothermal is the future

Im interested but the first thing I would want to know is, the company owner and management trurthy or will they cheat you? Thats most important to me.

I think it would be a much better investment than fusion which is pie-in-the-sky.

Lately everyone is supposedly caring about global warming. Have you thought about the implications of this energy source ?

It should have been our #1 development after sending man to the moon.

For some strange reason something is telling me that this is a bad idea geothermally and geologically.

sounds like the oil/gas industries worst nightmare im certain it will go swimmingly and publicly yield great results, and definitely wont be sabotaged, legally bound and inoperable for years, and or silently "forgotten" so that people dont remember to ask where their infinite and affordable energy is 🙃

@4:12 "very interesting machine because it's *a very high interest diffusion research* so it's definitely interesting to see an offset technology be used in drilling but more importantly it only consumes about *one megawatt hour*" (emphasis added). Do you simply mean that diffusion research is interesting? (I wouldn't ask if I didn't agree with what that apparently means.) Did you mean to say one megawatt /per/ hour?

Hard to beat nuclear, thats the future

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V.I.R.G.I.L is the 🐐 of all drills. The Core, one of the best terrible movies that's worth watching.

3:33 - I nitpick like this only on good videos: "hundreds of megawatts per hour" makes no sense. Either "hundreds of MW" (power) or "hundreds of MWh each hour" (energy). As the former implies the latter, it would be preferred. Similar, "it only consumes about one MWh" around 4_24; "it only needs about one MW" or "it only consumes about one MWh per hour"; preferably the former. Why is it that some, even technically savvy people, keep confusing power and energy ?

Drilling is old, plasma would be bad fkn ass 😂 it would also be a very straight hole. Think a CNC EDM robot but as a drill. I say we do it, but we need a way to make power better 😎 need more Kv

This is not about the drilling tech, but I'm afraid if they would harvest lots and lots of geothermal energy it would significantly cool down the Earths crust and some of the liquid mantle underneath would become solid. Now you have a thicker crust, so more time between earthquakes but more powerful earthquakes. It wouldn't happen soon but look at what we've done with CO2...

Wait. They want to drill a hole to the earth's core? Right?

Please investigate thunderstorms generator. Doubles fuel. 0. Carbon. Put on any engine

yay, lets vent the geothermal and cool the core of the planet, and see what happens next, yay, lets dill petroleum out of the planet and burn it and see what happens next

If geothermal is truly to be exploited, Hawaii will replace Texas as the energy hub.

We should now shy from high cost of these technologies. We need reliable base load power - it is either this or nuclear. As strong proponent of nuclear energy I might be, I cannot ignore the fact that most of cost lowering promises of SMR are yet to materialize, and (trans) continental transmission grids and utility scale energy storage needed tp wind and solar to play that role are expensive. too, with the former also being politically vulnerable. In the end, we will need _everything,_ from conventional gigawatt-scale fission reactors all the way down to residential solar with perhap 100kWh worth of storage.

We don’t hear about this in the news………. Many if the mainstream would push geothermal and not useless windmills.

NASA already doing @ Yellowstone

Megawatts per hour? What's that? 🙂

But we were always told that a nuclear power plant could meltdown and it would create a hole through the earth, reaching china. They even made a movie with Jane Fonda called the China Syndrome to make everyone believe it was true. Shouldn't we just get Jane to show us how to build a nuclear power plant that can make these holes a lot easier than drilling or using fancy lasers?

Why don't we just pour water in volcanos and make steam that way?

If it can generate a enormous amount of energy, the spend of a very amount of electricity is justified and paid back in some years.

Anybody who gets watts and watt-hours confused isn't well-versed on the subject.

Quintillion and quintillion dollars business of heat electricity

nuclear powered plasma boring?

Is tampering with the internal forces of the earth a wise decision to make. ?????????? what could possibly go wrong! lol

"Shaft"

Leave it up to humans to make boiling water complicated.

sounds like not a good idea to cold down the core of our planet.

Too many acronyms to be comprehensible.

Is it just steam we are after down there. Why do we need to go so deep. And what are the consequences of opening up the earth that deep. Exactly we don't know. And should be taking thee situations very seriously and these companies should be held accountable for 100 % of anything related to any that even considered an incident during and for the entire time that these hotels or facilities are open and even after they are closed. For who knows. 500 years afterwards.

please tone down the background muisc

What is not every pil company involver in this…

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Suck the heat out of the core?? sounds like a really stupid idea....