Is there really a drill bit that can penetrate 20,000 meters underground? So far, no country has such technology, but an American company says it can. So, can this company that needs to drill 20,000 meters underground to find geothermal energy for humans? Can they really find thi

Is there really a drill bit that can drill 20,000 meters underground? So far, no country has such technology, but an American company says it can. So, can this company that needs to drill 20,000 meters underground to find geothermal energy for humans? Can they really find this endless energy?

There is a well in the Norwegian border area. It was a carat deep well drilled by the former Soviet Union at that time, and it was a deep well with a depth of 12,262 meters. Some people must have questions, why is it so deep? Why not dig down?

is not actually because people at that time didn’t want to dig down, mainly because human technology at that time could not support them digging down. You should know that the more you go inside the earth, the rocks are getting harder and the temperature is getting higher and higher. The hardest drill bits made by humans at that time can only be afraid in front of these stones and break when they are touched.

But as time goes by, the science and technology mastered by human beings are constantly improving. According to the " Daily Mail ", a company in the United States has developed a microwave drill bit. According to the company's introduction, this drill bit can drill 20,000 meters underground, thereby obtaining a continuous stream of geothermal energy. According to this company, as long as geothermal energy can be developed, it will be available for human use for 2.3 billion years. Is this company's statement credible?

If you want to know whether it is trustworthy, we must first know what kind of technology is needed to drill a well and what difficulties will we face.

First of all, from the above, we can know that human technology had stopped at 12262 meters at that time. In this place, human technology could no longer overcome hard rocks, and the drill bits made could not tolerate the scorching temperature. The setbacks suffered by the former Soviet Union at that time can prove that it is necessary to harvest endless energy from the ground to achieve excellent technology and strong perseverance.

Secondly, when the former Soviet Union was digging a well, there were three crises. When the first time the well was dug, the rotary rod was stuck, resulting in the drilling depth of only about 7,000 meters; the second time the former Soviet workers replaced it with a new drill rod . When it reached 12,066 meters, the drill bit fell off, but the workers had to reinstall the drill bit and start digging again from a depth of 7,000 meters. On the third time, although the new drill bit was working, when it reached 12,262 meters, the drill bit fell off again. After this time, the Soviet Union never continued to drill.

actually is not because the Soviet Union didn't want to continue, but because the drill bits were really unable to drill, and the hardness of the underground rocks was unimaginable to humans at that time, which is enough to show how difficult it was at that time.

But 12262 meters was not the ultimate depth of drilling at that time. Later, Qatar drilled a deep well of 12289 meters to develop oil and gas resources, but Russia was so angry that it believed that its position was challenged, so it drilled a 12354-meter oil well to maintain its own advantages. But such an oil well is still very far away from 20,000 meters!

From this perspective, the metal drill bits of human beings at this time cannot penetrate the rocks in the earth's crust that have been squeezed for billions of years, so they can only think of another way.

This is because of a company mentioned above in the United States. They developed a microwave drill bit that can easily crush rocks and drill 20,000 meters underground. This type of microwave drill bit does not shatter the rocks by brute force, but by the sound waves on the drill bits. In this way, no matter how hard the rocks are, they can be easily crushed, and it is impossible to drill 20,000 meters underground. But is it really as easy as this company said?

is not actually true. This is just a theoretical idea. If it is really implemented, it may not necessarily look like?

The question now is, is it really worth it for these so-called geothermal energy? In fact, it would be worth it if such a thing could be realized.We all know that the fossil energy that exists all over the world will always be used up on the day when it is used up. Many countries are planning clean energy in advance. Our China is an example. But if we humans can really obtain geothermal energy from the underground magma , then this inexhaustible clean energy will be able to continuously provide heat energy to humans.

But we also need to think about it, can this microwave drill really penetrate rocks 20,000 meters? You should know that underground magma is likely to have a high temperature of hundreds of degrees. Can microwave drills withstand this high temperature roasting? We still have to put a question mark on this. After all, the high temperature of four or five hundred degrees can even melt the stones, let alone the items made by humans?

But humans cannot be discouraged. With the development of technology, humans may be able to create better drills. After all, scientists estimate that the heat contained in the earth is equivalent to the energy contained in 50 trillion tons of coal. If calculated based on the annual coal consumption of 8 billion tons, it will take 620,000 years to consume it, but this is only a part of the heat. If all the heat from the earth is released, it can be used by humans for 2.3 billion years.

doesn’t say anything else, just listening to this number will make many humans constantly work hard on this matter. Do you think humans should work hard on such matters?