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The news here, specifically, is that:

> Enter Quaise, which “is developing technology to blast rock with microwaves to potentially drill the deepest holes on Earth.

ie. there's a new, untried at extremes, bore drilling technique.

The calculation of heat production from earths core isn't new here, and nor, sadly, is any demonstration of a bore hole at a 10 mile depth.

They do acknowledge the deepest convential borehole so far was 7.6 mile (at some considerable effort at no small expense).



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