[Rockhounds] Company Plans to Dig World's Deepest Hole to Unleash Boundless Energy

[Mike Flannigan]

Their drilling scheme sounds like pie-in-the-sky
academia thinking to me.


Mike


On 3/11/22 05:44, rockhounds-request at rockhounds.drizzle.com wrote:
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> A company that plans to drill deeper into Earth than ever before, creating
> holes that would extend a record-shattering 12 miles under our planet?s
> surface, has raised a total of $63 million since its launch in 2020.
>
> Most recently, Quaise Energy, a startup that aims to revolutionize the
> geothermal energy market, secured $40 million in series A funding in
> February, reports Axios. The goal of these super-deep holes is to access a
> limitless amount of renewable energy from the heat deep inside Earth.
>
> "This funding round brings us closer to providing clean, renewable baseload
> energy," said Carlos Araque, CEO and co-founder of Quaise Energy, according
> to BusinessWire. "Our technology allows us to access energy anywhere in the
> world, at a scale far greater than wind and solar, enabling future
> generations to thrive in a world powered with abundant clean energy."
>
> Geothermal energy has a low profile compared to other renewable energy
> sources such as solar, wind, and hydro, but Quaise believes it is ?at the
> core of an energy-independent world,? according to the company?s website.
> This form of energy is among the oldest power sources harnessed by humans,
> but it only accounts for about 0.4 percent of net energy production in the
> United States, which is the world?s biggest geothermal producer.
>
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