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Startup Will Drill 12 Miles Into Earth's Crust to Tap the Boundless Energy Below
(singularityhub.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2022
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Honestly, I like the idea. Does anyone have any good arguments why it could be not feasible?
I think the problem is "millimeter-wave beams of light to vaporize rock" being used to dig 12 mile deep holes all over the earth. I've never heard of such a thing and am skeptical.
Also, everyone knows if you dig too deep you find demons and other fun stuff.
Yeah, the dæmons make the whole thing very expensive. You'd have to contain them, regularly send kill squads, can't dump their bodies on regular dumps (you'd basically have to use the pits of hell) and sometimes they become personal demons which are really annoying and hard to get rid of.
30 to 300GHz drill/vaporise rock haha good luck with 2 meters let alone 12 miles deep. After burning zillions of dollars they'll settle for 2000m deep right next to some traditional geothermal in iceland and be very opaque about what tech they used to make the hole.
Spot on 😃
Geothermal energy only works in areas where you don't have tectonic shifts and lasers which can melt rock use a lot of energy (but also you don't break drills, which frequently happens for regular boring).
So basically, you have the same problems you have with regular geothermal energy, just with lasers. I don't see why it wouldn't work at all, it's just not as revolutionary as they claim and will not work 'all over the world'.