The Energy Solution Beneath Our Feet: Unlimited Power Source Revealed | Market Update

Hi, it's Brian Decker with your Market Minute. I want to talk to you something about that's very, very exciting. It's the energy issue that we've had here in the United States and around the world. The solution to the US energy problem is very exciting and it's right under our feet. Deep underground, beneath layers of dirt, rock. Ancient furnace burns hotter than the surface of the sun and that's the magma, the ocean of molten rock that's below our Earth's crust. It was formed 4.6 billion years ago, generating enough heat and energy to power all of humanity forever. This huge energy source has always been just out of reach, but now new technology puts it back in reach. The temperatures there in the magma is 10,800 degrees Fahrenheit down in the core. It's just a few miles down, but what's been happening is the drill bits have been melting. And so there's no access to it, but there's new technology that's now opening that huge resource. So if you take all the energy sources, fossil fuels, uranium, seawater, lithium, thorium, and you call that X. Well, geothermal is 15 million X. It's vast. Almost every power plant today, whether it's nuclear, coal, or gas, it's just a way to boil water in the steam and the steam spins turbines which generate electricity. That's all it's about. Geothermal works like nature's steam engine. Drill holes into the underground rocks, pump water down, use that heated steam to spin turbines and generate the power. Unlike solar panels that go dark at night, wind turbines that stagnate without a breeze, the Earth's heat never quits. It's 24-7. We just have to tap into it. Yet right now, geothermal only supplies 0.4 of America's power today. Why so little? Well, the reason is, again, melting the drill bits. So one solution is picture two parallel wells. The first goes down thousands of feet, then hooks sideways. It's like fracking, like a hockey stick. You flow cold water down into it. Then the second well carries up the pressurized steam that can power a small city. So this first option is geothermal fracking. It's here. It's used right now. The Google massive data centers are powered with geothermal wells in Nevada and California right now today. So that's exciting, and that's being built out. The second is developing drill bits that have powerful lasers that melt rock. These microwave beams vaporize granite like a blowtorch through ice. And that's opening up a way for us to tap into the vast energy that's down at the Earth's core. So this is what's coming. This is very exciting because it's a solution. If we want to bring manufacturing back from China, give American factories cheap, reliable power, throw in some robots, and we'll be able to compete with anyone. So this is Brian Decker. Hope you have a good week.