![Rock, drill bit, microwave: Paul Woskov explores a new path through the Earth's crust | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rock, drill bit, microwave: Paul Woskov explores a new path through the Earth's crust | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology](https://news.mit.edu/sites/default/files/images/201604/paul-woskov-mit.jpg)
Rock, drill bit, microwave: Paul Woskov explores a new path through the Earth's crust | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
![Deep Geothermal: accessing 500°C for steam turbines. Can it make coal, gas, nuclear redundant? - Energy Post Deep Geothermal: accessing 500°C for steam turbines. Can it make coal, gas, nuclear redundant? - Energy Post](https://energypost.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Tapping-into-the-million-year-energy-source-below-our-feet.jpg)
Deep Geothermal: accessing 500°C for steam turbines. Can it make coal, gas, nuclear redundant? - Energy Post
Andrew Côté on X: "This is the stuff of sci-fi - currently, you simply can't drill to arbitrary depths, since the pressure and heat get too high for the drill head. Gyrotron-drilling
![GAPSTI and Quaise Energy Inc. co-fund clean energy project at the Laboratory for Scientific Computing - The Gianna Angelopoulos Programme GAPSTI and Quaise Energy Inc. co-fund clean energy project at the Laboratory for Scientific Computing - The Gianna Angelopoulos Programme](https://www.gianna.phy.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/geothermal_poster350.jpg)
GAPSTI and Quaise Energy Inc. co-fund clean energy project at the Laboratory for Scientific Computing - The Gianna Angelopoulos Programme
![ToughSF on X: "Melting through rock using a 'drilling beam' (in this case megawatt-scale millimetre waves from a gyrotron) to dig out wells for geothermal power: https://t.co/iu8zFBJ2pj https://t.co/8ghR8nwm8o That is what @altarock ToughSF on X: "Melting through rock using a 'drilling beam' (in this case megawatt-scale millimetre waves from a gyrotron) to dig out wells for geothermal power: https://t.co/iu8zFBJ2pj https://t.co/8ghR8nwm8o That is what @altarock](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpHuvGXXEAEXAuA.jpg)