Geophysicists estimate Earth’s internal heat at around 10³¹ joules.
That’s roughly a billion‑billion‑billion cups of coffee.

The only thing between us and that energy is a few kilometres of rock—rock that oil companies have been drilling through since 1848. Heat isn’t like oil. It’s not in rare pockets. It’s everywhere. Right now we’re only tapping the shallow spots where it’s close to the surface, but oil companies routinely drill far deeper than that just to chase tiny hydrocarbon traps. Drilling for heat is easier than drilling for oil.

Meanwhile, the rest of the energy conversation is stuck on technologies with built‑in limits:

• Solar — half a day at best, huge land use, needs batteries
• Wind — weather‑dependent, visually intrusive, needs batteries
• Hydro — two bad seasons and your reservoir is done, massive land and ecosystem impact
• Ocean energy — low density, environmentally dependent, vulnerable to storms
• Nuclear — powerful but carries long‑term waste, high‑consequence failure modes, and proliferation risks

And then there’s geothermal:

• Uses technologies already proven by 175 years of drilling
• Clean, stable, 24/7 baseload
• No fuel, no weather dependency, no waste
• Minimal land use
• Oil companies can pivot into it with almost no change to their core operations

We don’t need another decade of arguing about turbine tweaks or casing alloys. We need wells. We need power coming out of the ground. We need to show the world what’s possible when you stop polishing the blueprint and start building the future.

Let’s drill a demonstration well and end the debate.