2246 Deep Geothermal And Fusion Power
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The reason that turning rock into plasma works is that, as most people don't realise, rock is mostly oxygen by volume therefore when converted to plasma and hit with hydrogen you remove most of the volume as steam. If you are smart you also use that upward escaping steam in the bore to turn a turbine/electrical generator to drive the process. What you are then left with is a silicon rich metallic alloy forming a lining in the bore. Get the engineering right and the only powersource you need once started is the hydrogen, or natural gas if you happen to have a source nearby.
I've heard that one of Taiwanese Geothermal plants was "drilled" by evaporating rock, and the cost of energy used was lower than the cost of steel drills that would be used to drill a similar hole classic way. But I'm not able to find the article any more
Gyrotron is the device that makes the RF energy, if a microwave is little toddler, the gyrotron is a 6'5 bouncer
"Sun under our feet" sounds more like volcano under our arse 😁
Molten iron core is relevant to Earths magnetic field (harnessable)
Hi Robert FYI the 'mountain dew energiser' bottle is transparent & bright green - the colour plastic you said might be good on top of solar panels
For some reason "Diggy Diggy Hole" kept playing in my mind as I watched this. Interesting as usual, would love to see it tried now with the MIT method. If it works it would give the World plenty of energy and time to figure out the, always 50 years away, fusion problem.
Love these hot topics! (Sorry, I couldn't resist getting a dad joke in there!)
lol
The Chinese "Shenditake 1" bore hole just hit 10,000m apparently. I think it uses the same rock fusing tech.
Apparently used 20 drill bits (according to china.org.cn) so seems to be 'traditional' - shame. Deep geothermal could reduce the carbon footprint of developing nations quite significantly when most 'green' tech is out of their price range.
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I love these vids, thank you so much.
Incredible potential. 10x faster is already amazing, but self-sealing shaft is just beyond.
Interesting as always, but I strongly refute the notion that "drawing 0.1% of that geothermal energy would be enough energy to run every energy application human beings could have, want or need for the next 20 million years". Trust me, if it becomes accessible and affordable, we'll invent ways of depleting it prematurely. Remember how back in the day we had floppy disks, how much an 80 GB HDD seemed? I remember thinking "I'm not gonna fill that in the next decade!" I then did within 2 years or so. Then we went to Terrabytes, wow, that's so much storage! Well a friend of mine has 30TB in his NAS so a truly astonishing amount compared to that floppy, and it is full! And of course big tech companies are building petabytes of storage around the clock now, and there's no end in sight! M$ Flight Simulator scenery alone is 5 petabyte! And how much storage does CZcams alone use? Just wait until someone invents a transporter (as in Star Trek) or a wormhole drive or decides that hover cars are really the only mode of transportation or something else requiring massive amounts of energy. I bet you, if we really can tap into this energy cheaply, it won't last 500 years!
I'll counter your argument of pessimism the the observation of human ingenuity. The common light bulb is a good example. First, we had the incandescent light bulb. It was an energy hog and produced a lot of waste heat. A few decades later came the florescent light bulb. More light, less energy consumption, less heat. Let's fast forward to today with the LED light bulb. Much more light, much more energy efficient, much less waste heat.
You can observe this phenomenon throughout every aspect of technology that humanity creates. Humanity learns to do more with less. So don't be such a negative person and take heart in the achievements mankind has made. There is hope in the future.
@@ravenrock541
RR541,
My Experience is that I Would Not Rate Led Lights Better than Flouros.
Many Led Lamps are Not made Very Well and the Lumens are a Bit Low.
So for Me, Still Improvement Needed with Leds.
Also the Heat from an Indoor Incandescent is Not Wasted in Winter. It Helps Heat the Room and Light it.
But I Agree with the Principal of Human Progress.
@@ravenrock541 I never said there's no hope for the future, but your lightbulb example isn't that great. The reason we've switched over en masse is because we have legislation in an effort to combat climate change, and energy is expensive. Many people (myself included) prefer a traditional light over LED. If we had clean, cheap "infinite" energy many of us would go back to using normal light bulbs in our homes. Efficiency only goes up when absolutely required. If there's no incentive to increase efficiency, it simply doesn't happen!
lol - yes they probably would we don't have a great record for long term planning
I hope they're able to get into the field and drilling soon.
The key potential for this technology is to re-use existing thermal electric plants with infrastructure where the boilers and coal bunkers are scrapped and the generator hall is left producing😊
Truly green power 🔋
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The Quaise project is being tested in China and last time I checked should be ready about now. It looks good.
Who is contractor nm Google
@@sparkysho-ze7nm Sorry I don't understand ?
the longest part of drilling is removing and reinstalling the drill pipe to replace bits. Quasier uses no bits so it should be ten to 100 times faster
people should look into the Salvator Pais disclosed patents from the Navy, there is a fusion generator model i havent seen duplicated yet
hot-fusion: "make lots of heat to make more heat" !?
They should try it in old open pit mines. Would you need to attach the well head to solid rock, so you don’t create a volcano by mistake.
Geothermal is in principle very convenient but I think that it needs to be developed in conjunction with geothermal heat storage. If humanity were to adopt it worldwide it makes me a bit uneasy to see such a power draw from the thing that is maintaining our planet's magnetic field up and running
TUNGSTEN!!!
THE ULTIMATE WELL CASING AND THERMAL EXCHANGE MATERIAL!!!
Too brittle & even that will melt if you get deep enough
That good?
@@shazzz_land I was joking.
Tungsten is far too costly and difficult to work with to use in such applications.
Tack!
wow - thank you mate - that is 'well' apprecited !
So you agree to in depth rock fracturing? What is ur take on the implications in this?
New Zealand has Geothermal power plants , One plant is making h 2 for transport,
Wow
Why do the oleds in my mobile device not charge in direct sunlight?
Scary
Thanks for the video, really interesting. But is this really a good idea? If the world is already overheating because it can't leave our atmosphere, is releasing even more heat from underground a good idea? Will this not just exacerbate the problems we already have?
what I need to know is how to design my own trumpet so I can blow it!? hahaa!
Iceland is rethinking living so close to the underground sun.
Yep, I really think they should put out oars and move it.
Is messing with the equilibrium of nature wise?
Geothermal has so much potential for us all with so little tech actually required to make it happen. Fission is always 30 years away yet we could have a majority of our energy coming from deep geothermal in 30 years with no pollution and none of the drawbacks of solar and wind. it would also last for countless generations with very minimal maintenance unlike solar and wind. the world could be so much better with just a few relatively small shifts in thinking...
Fission isn't 30 years away, fission is what we've had for decades now. Fusion isn't 30 years away either, with SPARC still being on track to be finished in 2025 and many different designs using different principles being made and tested. Breakthroughs in this field are occurring at an exponential rate.I also think that you're underestimating the maintenance required for facilities like these, as compared to wind and especially solar power. Having said that, it is definitely worth exploring this as a nice addition to the various alternatives that we already have and are coming up!
Shouldn't they use the Kola borehole as their starting point?
Hope they don’t wake the Balrog
4 hrs ago 339 likes ( x9) anticipation to th extremely important knowledgeable instuctional production by th guru of geothermal energy before hitting comment button I heard “ cracking th earth likea egg”
Nikolai Tesla said u could ring th Earth like a BELL when knowing magnetic frequency of reasonable or sommin like that yehehe
Resonating frequency
Will Satan catch a chill if we let the heat out of The Underworld Palace, also known as Hades' Lair, and encourage Him to come up to show His displeasure with Humanity more than normal ? The punching of holes in His home's roof would seem aggravating to Him, but "what in the Hell do I know, I could be way off center with creeping out about the hole idea". : ) L.O.L.
Sir please make something for safe radio active fuel
Do you not think that drilling deep into the earths crust is going to cool the earths core quicker than it would otherwise, similar to global warming, meltinh the ice caps etc
Yep, and the cooler it gets the weaker the magnetic field will get, then the plasma will get us.
No chance.
Don't think there are any lasers used in this. Its microwave energy. Lasers dont work due to the debris getting in the way. 30-300Ghz microwave.
These are the lasers used in Fusion reactions and everything is vaporised.
"Fusion powered lasers" ? They are not lasers they are gyrotrons and they are not run on fusion energy. The word powered is a good one.
It's too bad all the money spent on fusion research hasn't been spent on this type/method of geothermal. I think we'd have all the clean energy we could ever need by now. In stead all we keep getting for fusion is "in another 20 years" and we are wasting time. Lets develop the energy production that is easier first, then we can focus on fusion later...in another 20 years.