Tapping into the million-year energy source below our feet | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tapping into the million-year energy source below our feet | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• MIT spinout Quaise Energy is working to create geothermal wells made from the deepest holes in the world.
• Quaise Energy wants to repurpose coal and gas plants into deep geothermal wells by using X-rays to melt rock.
  

"There’s an abandoned coal power plant in upstate New York that most people regard as a useless relic. But MIT’s Paul Woskov sees things differently.
Woskov, a research engineer in MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, notes the plant’s power turbine is still intact and the transmission lines still run to the grid. 

Using an approach he’s been working on for the last 14 years, he’s hoping it will be back online, completely carbon-free, within the decade..."