Geothermal energy is heat from the Earth. This heat can be used to warm businesses and homes in the winter. It can also be used to produce steam that can drive turbines and produce electricity. Currently, only about 0.3% of the energy used in the world is from geothermal energy with the United States leading the world in the amount of geothermal electricity generation (only 0.4% as of 2021, see Figure 1).
In countries, such as Iceland, geothermal energy is readily accessible and is being used on a large scale to provide heat and power to the country.
In most places on the planet, however, geothermal energy is deep underground and currently inaccessible.
Millimeter Wave Drilling, a new technology that was invented by Dr. Paul Woskov, Senior Research Engineer, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (https://www.psfc.mit.edu/) has the potential to not only provide almost limitless energy to our civilization, but also slow down and reverse Climate Change and Global Warming. This amazing technology is being developed by scientists and engineers at Quaise Energy (https://www.quaise.energy/). Quaise Energy is expeditiously working to make clean, carbon-free geothermal energy a viable and sustainable alternative to fossil fuels worldwide (see Quaise Energy’s video below).