Hydrobore

Hydrobore technology is the use of water as the cutting edge of an earth-boring drill. Maxlore’s prototype, Hydrobore, takes the idea further. It is a sophisticated tunnel building machine that cuts rock, analyzes it, sorts it, and spits it out into various containers. The prototype Hydrobore creates the tunnel walls, and reinforces them as it oozes through bedrock like an earthworm moves through fresh wet soil. Once the Hydrobore is operational, Maxlore will have access to the earth’s core heat, and he can begin work on a geo-thermal power plant. Once the power plant is operational, he can use the unlimited power resources of the earth to run his industries.

Because of its simplicity, this technology has uncountable advantages over other existing and potential technologies. Instead of focusing on individual problems of resource acquisition and management, it is a single solution that will address them all. Water already cuts steel and marble. It can also carry heat and turn turbines. The Hydrobore is a tunneling technology and a renewable energy system that takes advantage of both of these properties. The Hydrobore would only need to dig until it reached a temperature of 300 degrees, a depth that is easily accessible. That heat would be transferred to the water in the borehole which, once at the surface, would become steam and turn the turbines to provide clean, renewable energy.

The Hydrobore itself has countless applications. Clearly the power plant, as a producer of inexpensive, environmentally-safe energy, will revolutionize the energy industry. But it can have an even wider impact. People around the world suffer from a lack of clean drinking water. The steam turning the turbines can be recaptured and processed, very inexpensively, into drinking water.

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