This is what the future of energy looks like: boreholes through tough basement rock. ? Last year, our team accomplished another milestone on the road to superhot rock #geothermal energy. We drilled a hole 100 inches deep through a column of basalt, making it 100x the scale of the original tests conducted by the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT. ? The 100x test pushed the limits of what can be achieved in the lab, requiring our team to get creative. Our engineers rotated the column on its side, horizontally rather than vertically, to get the job done. ? The clean cut made by our millimeter wave drilling technology gives us further confidence in moving to the next stage of field demonstrations. We are diligently testing all components in preparation, ready to make another stride toward a future of clean energy for all.
TechEnergy Ventures
3 个月
Huge congratulations to the Quaise Energy team on this incredible achievement! Nice to see you drilling your limits in the geothermal journey! #geothermalenergy
Congratulations Quaise Energy, the core is the limit!???????
Jennifer Le Blond
3 个月
Incredible to see the vitrification casing, and perhaps opportunities to work with igneous petrologists to characterise the exhaust when you start getting to depth ??. Congratulations Quaise Energy!
Mahmut Kaan TüZEN
3 个月
I am really impressed about enthusiasm to change conventional drilling systems with this mind blowing concept. ??
Colleen Pekrul
3 个月
How will the drilling effect the biospheres and ecosystems above and below the earth's crust. This from a physics perspective is exciting. Most oil drilling is ~6k (2-3k). Just because you can doesn't mean you should. There is a lot of farmland and Fisheries in MA. Are the communities supporting this endeavor?
David McBay
3 个月
What a beautiful site keep up the great initiative team Quaise
Director at Black Reiver Consulting Ltd
3 个月The required waveguide tolerances vs achievable manufacturing drilling tubular tolerances and temperature variability on ID will amost certianly be an power attenuation roadblock that will limit the achievable drilled depth to relatively insignificant wells. The quality of the hole produced in terms of a usable wellbore is another roadblock as controling diameter and rugosity even in the lab is almost impossible. Just because you melt a hole does not make it usable for a completion string. Venting and removal of vapours and gases during this process will create condensation and solidification of material behind the ‘drilling’ head another serious issue. Do we need to talk about well control? At the same time conventional drilling techniques are pushing to over a kilometre a day in ultra high compressive strength rocks whilst delivering quality usable welbores. Good luck solving all the problems based on attenuation first. The next challange will to address the real world of variable geology and deliver something of a usable diameter and quality in the lab. To deliver diameter and quality in a bench test would be more impressive than a deeper bore.