Flame Drill

Innovative technology may bring geothermal energy to the forefront of green alternatives.

Man Made: Underground Power : http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/man-made/3153/Overview

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Science & Technology

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• geothermal
• underground
• mega green tech
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• flame drill
• flame
• national geographic

[fixiosis]

fuck google and its ads.

[Ducky11112]

they should have called it the fire drill

[bambarby]

prepare the red matter.

[diegonikki]

thats just a huge hho flame torch using hydrogen and oxygen to break rocks but

what if the rocks contain iron or silicon dioxide instead u end up making lava

[turgore]

I say bring it on. I wonder if it could be used to drill tunnels for subway systems. 100 ft per hour is really fast !

[M4UlWuRfxD]

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[BBoyA2A]

@penitent2401 haha u dont get it do you, the drilling is for geothermal borehole, c'mon kid

[george456789]

@penitent2401 Thats not what it's about, it's about being able to drill a hole deep enough to capture geothermal energy in most areas to generate power - nothing to do with using hydrogen to make energy.

[penitent2401]

there's so many stuff using hydrogen as fuel and claims that's it's totally green for the enviroment as it produces no co2 when burn. creating pure hydrogen is an energy intensive process and the amount of energy you can get out of the hydrogen is always less then the energy used to create them (law of conservation of energy). unless this technology has alot higher efficiency then conventional methods, it's not going to be a real solution.

[davidrbrito]

It's not about drilling, but how do you keep the borehole open.

[nbryc]

Pumping flammable gasses, and pressurized super heated air into a tiny deep hole. What could possibly go wrong?