Okay, admittedly this sounds, like, really optimistic. But then again these guys seem 100% confident they can do it—and if they can, it might be the biggest scientific game-changer in human history:
A Boston-based energy company has plans to dig the world's deepest hole toward the earth's center, 12 miles deep, and access geothermal energy that it claims would give an inexhaustible source of energy to sustain 95% of the world's population.
Quaise Energy, launched in 2020 as an Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) spin-off, said it would use its hybrid drilling rig to reach a depth of 12.4 miles in just 100 days; the depth would reach a temperature of roughly 932 degrees Fahrenheit.
As Quaise itself puts it:
Supercritical geothermal energy, with its small land footprint and ability to harness over 100 years of fossil fuel drilling, surveying, and transmission infrastructure, represents a potential power source too compelling to ignore.
Okay, on the one hand, this sounds absolutely insanely cool. Moreover, it sounds very promising. Everyone involved appears to be completely convinced that they can do this.
So let's hope they're right, and that one day in the not-too-distant future we'll look back on fossil fuels and even present-day "green energy" in the same way we look back on this:
And by not-so-distant future, we mean potentially 2026:
"Quaise recently raised more than $63 million in funding and is hoping to get its drilling devices operating in the field within the next two years,' The New York Post stated. "Longer-term plans consist of having a working system producing power by 2026."
Still, I mean...it does feel kinda risky, doesn't it? I mean, we know from ultra-scientific movies like 2003's "The Core" that the deepest depths of the Earth are pretty hostile, to say the least:
I guess that's kinda the point, actually.
Well, what about the extreme dangers faced by the deep drilling crew in the smash-hit 1998 movie "Armageddon?"
Well, I guess that was actually on a Texas-sized asteroid in space...not Earth.
I guess we're out of objections, then. Drill, baby, drill!
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