Chinese engineers broke ground on a new super deep borehole that will burrow far into the Earth’s crust as the country steps up its search for natural resources hidden tens of thousands of feet underground.
Chinese engineers on Thursday broke ground on a new super deep borehole that will burrow far into the Earth’s crust as the country steps up its search for natural resources hidden tens of thousands of feet underground.
If completed, they would be among two of the deepest human-made boreholes in the world. However they would not be deepest. Humans have reached the moon but when it comes to exploring the land deep beneath our feet, we have only scratched the surface of our planet. Painting it as a move of “great significance,” the state news outlet said the effort is aimed at exploring deeply buried resources while “promoting the progress of the core technology and equipment capability of China’s oil and gas engineering.”
Unveiling the Xinjiang project previously, Xinhua dubbed it a “telescope” into the deepest end of the earth, with its 2,000-ton design tasked to penetrate more than 10 continental strata. China, the world’s second largest economy and the world’s biggest carbon emitter, has huge energy needs. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has declared future energy security as a national security priority.
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