How Deep Could We Dig for Infinite Geothermal Energy?

If we extracted large amounts of heat from the earth's core, what are the chances of solidifying it and slowing or stopping the flow of magma that created the earth's magnetic field, thereby removing the protective force field that protects us from cosmic radiation.?

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Geothermal, huh? Earth can radiate only so much energy into the vacuum of space. If we keep using heat to generate power, how long before we can't dissipate that heat back out into space?

1. Speak English, its official. 2. tell me in miles and Fahrenheit . It's official. Otherwise go back to Mexico or Europe or whatever they use these crazy measurements and languages.

Its not Infinite lol your math is 100% wrong..

W Why don't you use GRX810 for The geothermal drill

Anyone else see that smudge? >.>;

People say the universe must have a beginning because you could never get to the present from an infinite past.
Yet they still believe in infinite growth, infinite power, infinite riches...

Would this class as a Type 1 civilisation?

Geothermal energy is NOT infinite.

"The flow of heat from Earth's interior to the surface is estimated at 47±2 terawatts (TW)."

"Global energy consumption reached a record high in 2023, at 620 exajoules (17 x 10^4 terawatt hours)"
Which equates to an average power of 19.7 TW, that's getting close to 50% of geothermal heat Flux

If we extracted anything close total energy demand it would probably cause some interesting effects on the behaviour of the Earth's crust or mantle because we would be calling it down. Deep geothermal effectively short circuits the heat flow through the Earth making the ground above the extraction depth become cooler and probably shrink.

Or… just use nuclear, which actually works… anywhere!

The answer of course is to lubricate the shaft and the drill bit with a fluid that can also be pumped to carry the waste away from the drill and the shaft.
It will require an inner hollow tube and an outer so that the fluid can be pumped down the inner hollow tube and up the outside of the inner tube between the outer and inner tube with some of the fluid flowing outside of both pipes to lubricating the outer shaft.

It's rocket science but going the other way.

Solar and wind are not reliable or green, they are all made, installed, maintained and disposed of using hydrocarbons.

the microwave drill sounds very high tech but i wonder if it will ever be really practical. its seems fervo is using more conventional tech so why are they not everywhere yet?

Ask Iceland they dug deep enough to destroy their island!

Is there not a consequence to pulling a significant amount of heat and energy out of the earth? Possibly far less than other energy sources but it has to affect something at some point in time.

we should think of wider holes. That would slow the speed to get deeper, but gives times to the rock to cool slowly and become stable. The aim would be to go the "verbetical one mile further" and create a constant boiling column.

It is very dangerous to tap the earths core if to much heat is extracted it will cause thermal imbalances. We need to stop messing around with the earth. Mars is a perfect example cool core disruption to the magnetic field and total destruction of the planet.

Yes, lets remove stuff beneath the earth so that we can then act surprised when earthquakes occur

How does the heat released from the rock go away? We would be bringing heat from the rock to the air. How does this affect the earth's inner heat? Would we be cooling inner earth?

Why have you added fake blemished on the animated parts of the video?

Is it possible and easier to put a circulation system at the side of an active volcano as close as possible (for example Yellowstone Caldera) at the same time reducing the risk of eruptions?

Everything that you ate already looking a lot of kilometers below, you already at surface level with active volcanos.

You just need to dig diagonally into active volcanos. Of course that will be hard, but not nearly as hard as digging down tens of kilometers adding a huge atmospheric pressure.

If you are still not able to do it this way into an active volcano, you are just wasting your time attempting to go deeper down.

Die Tiefe bringts nicht! Man sollte die oberflächennahe Geothermie halb so teuer machen, wie sie im Moment verkauft wird. Das geht, es ist alles vorhanden nur Bürokratie und Gewinnmaximierung bei hoher Nachfrage machen es schwer! 100 m für Heizen im Winter und Kühlen im Sommer sind ein Klacks!

Why not go straight to a volcano and put the pipes into it? You don't even need to drill.

Didn't such activity lead to the demise of Krypton????

Why not harness the heat from a volcano
You’ve already got hot rocks at the surface no drilling required

wind and solar are distractions we cannot afford
they are unreliable and require fossil fuel backups or unachievable battery storage
the future is geo thermal which unlimited and reliable 24/7/365

How could a finite resource provide an infinite source of power? The sun will have burned out in around 4.5billion years. Infinity in beyond us.

A serious subject made garbage by endless childish cartoons.

Don't expect a corrupted by Big Oil, Big Coal, Big Power POTUS to allow this to happen.

Why not directly use live volcano or drill near an active volcano.
This would eliminate the requirement with deep drilling

Why the music?

Geothermal and hydro as 1st line of generation, then nuclear 2nd to fill any gap.

A company in Australia tried to develop geothermal in the Moodie gas field in South Australia in the 1990s . .
I think they went broke.
Maybe time to try again?

Drilling deep holes using water and fractures is 'old' tech. I was involved in a geothermal pilot a few years back in my country that proposed to use similar tech to Eavor. Pentane or Heptane has a far lower boiling point, and when used in a closed loop doesn't require fracturing. Moreover, with proper geological identification, deep drilling isn't even required. Out site would have required drilling to maximum 90 meters. The problem with geothermal is not a technical or economic one. It is entirely political. That being said, even under the best conditions and with everyone's buy in, geothermal could at best only be part of the solution and could never replace anything. The physics for making it work simply does not exist everywhere.

you can not tap in to the energy needed to keep earth alive!!!!

I have never read about the geothermal proponents talking about how to deal with the radioactivity brought to the surface with the working fluid.

if at some point it becomes to hot to dig through, then why are we still digging we have reached the energy source we wanted right?

Geothermal energy is limitless, but it definitely isn’t clean. Along with the water and steam that comes up all kinds of toxic chemicals.

lol interesting i designed a power system for a drilling rig fervo used for geothermal

One thing I have noticed that seems to be common among all of these geothermal videos and discussions: Nobody is talking about what happens when we remove energy from deep within the earth. Have there been any studies or scaled experiments involving this practice? If not, there probably should be before we get too far ahead of ourselves and start destroying the planet from within.

American speaking about geothermal???? Whyyyyy just ask icelander

Why don't they just melt the earth crust with a super powerful laser??...

I can see where this ends. We cool the core; the magma flow stops and our magnetic planetary shield disappears.

why just why would you put a fake fly or whatever in this kind of video? shame on you