MIT spin-off Quaise is trying to use hijacked fusion technology to drill some of the deepest holes in history, unlocking clean, virtually limitless, supercritical geothermal energy that can re-power ...

A beam of electromagnetic energy traveling at the speed of light strikes a thick slab of basalt, one of the hardest rocks on ...

Quaise's ultra-deep geothermal power plan is one of the most exciting and fascinating green energy projects we've seen. In a nutshell, this Boston-based MIT spin-off says it has repurposed powerful ...

A team drilling down into the oceanic crust has reached impressive depths, collecting incredible samples of mantle rock from 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) below the sea floor. The rest of this article is ...

Inside the Earth’s iron and nickel core, it’s 9,392 degrees Fahrenheit, about five times hotter than the lava that spews out of volcanoes. The heat dissipates outward through the layers of our planet, ...

Forget digging a hole to China — now China’s the one digging the really deep holes. The Asian nation has begun drilling a more than 32,800-foot-deep hole into the Earth’s crust as part of a so-called ...

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Drilling in its broadest sense is any process that involves making a circular hole in a solid material or hard surface using a boring tool. With thousands of applications across industries, drilling ...

Orange Minerals is gearing up to drill a deep copper-gold induced polarisation (IP) anomaly at its polymetallic Lennon’s Find ...

This down-the-hole-drill has proven itself in soft, medium and hard rock conditions with multiple end-users and applications. Provides deep holes from 3.5 to 6.5 in. at fast drilling rates with low ...

involves removing material to create a hole that is often deeper than ten times its diameter. The process is used to make components such as gun barrels, hydraulic cylinders and oil well drilling ...