Good explainer video on one of my favorite advanced energy techs – Quaise Energy’s microwave laser device, designed for no-drill drilling, potentially a game changer to open up geothermal heat riches anywhere on the planet.
Good explainer video on one of my favorite advanced energy techs – Quaise Energy’s microwave laser device, designed for no-drill drilling, potentially a game changer to open up geothermal heat riches anywhere on the planet.
Does anybody know, how the tube carrying the ‘beam’, survives the the 3600 deg C vaporized rock getting blown to the surface? Odd other problem to be solved, otherwise a fantastic (fantasy) solution.
Until this and fusion to become reality, keep working on other methods of generation.
The beam goes down a pipe – waveguide – with a flow of gas that keeps the inside clean and cool(ish). Where the beam and gas exit the pipe, the rock vapor mixes with the gas, condenses into molten droplets which coat the walls & freeze to glass; and cool radiatively into dust that is carried away in the annulus between the outside of the pipe and bore wall. The tricky control bit is to maintain the proper gas flow rate, rock vaporization rate, and advance rate such that the droplets have all cooled enough that they don’t build up on the end/sides of the waveguide, and the OD of the borehole remains constant.
OK.
Tricky!
Would be Happy to be proved wrong.
We have no NEAR infinite energy available. The only thing close is NIGH infinite and we’re nowhere near that.