{"id":223864,"date":"2025-10-24T03:22:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/tapping-into-the-million-year-energy-source-below-our-feet"},"modified":"2025-10-24T03:22:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:22:36","slug":"tapping-into-the-million-year-energy-source-below-our-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/tapping-into-the-million-year-energy-source-below-our-feet","title":{"rendered":"Tapping into the million-year energy source below our feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tapping-into-the-million-year-energy-source-below-our-feet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an abandoned coal power plant in upstate New York that most people regard as a useless relic. But MIT\u2019s Paul Woskov sees things differently.<\/p>\n<p>Woskov, a research engineer in MIT\u2019s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, notes the plant\u2019s power turbine is still intact and the transmission lines still run to the grid. Using an approach he\u2019s been working on for the last 14 years, he\u2019s hoping it will be back online, completely carbon-free, within the decade.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Quaise Energy, the company commercializing Woskov\u2019s work, believes if it can retrofit one power plant, the same process will work on virtually every coal and gas power plant in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Quaise is hoping to accomplish those lofty goals by tapping into the energy source below our feet. The company plans to vaporize enough rock to create the world\u2019s deepest holes and harvest geothermal energy at a scale that could satisfy human energy consumption for millions of years. They haven\u2019t yet solved all the related engineering challenges, but Quaise\u2019s founders have set an ambitious timeline to begin harvesting energy from a pilot well by 2026. (Circa June 28 2022\/Posted first in Lifeboat jn, 2022 by Gemechu Taye &amp; Genevieve Klein) <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>MIT spinout Quaise Energy is working to create geothermal wells made from the world\u2019s deepest holes in order to repurpose coal and gas plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s an abandoned coal power plant in upstate New York that most people regard as a useless relic. But MIT\u2019s Paul Woskov sees things differently. Woskov, a research engineer in MIT\u2019s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, notes the plant\u2019s power turbine is still intact and the transmission lines still run to the grid. Using an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223864","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}