{"id":138733,"date":"2022-04-27T03:22:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T08:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/mit-wants-to-use-a-rock-vaporizing-drill-to-cut-12-miles-into-earths-crust"},"modified":"2022-04-27T03:22:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T08:22:23","slug":"mit-wants-to-use-a-rock-vaporizing-drill-to-cut-12-miles-into-earths-crust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/mit-wants-to-use-a-rock-vaporizing-drill-to-cut-12-miles-into-earths-crust","title":{"rendered":"MIT wants to use a rock-vaporizing drill to cut 12 miles into Earth\u2019s crust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Bu5JFGJJp8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>MIT spinoff Quaise Energy is building a drill that vaporizes rock \u2014 so that we can tap into the energy miles below our feet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Geothermal energy:<\/strong> Earth\u2019s core is as hot as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discovery.com\/science\/Earths-core-hot-melt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">surface of the sun<\/a>, but we don\u2019t have to go too far below the surface to start feeling the heat \u2014 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/web\/infographic-the-worlds-deepest-gold-mine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mponeng gold mine<\/a> in South Africa, which has a depth of 2.5 miles, rock temperatures can reach 140 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n<p>Geothermal power generates electricity from this natural heat, and there\u2019s enough of it to meet the energy needs of the entire world \u2014 if you can get to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT spinoff Quaise Energy is building a drill that vaporizes rock \u2014 so that we can tap into the energy miles below our feet. Geothermal energy: Earth\u2019s core is as hot as the surface of the sun, but we don\u2019t have to go too far below the surface to start feeling the heat \u2014 in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}