Nancy Argyle has written extensively on sonic drilling over the past decade. She describes herself as a wordsmith, fixed-wing pilot and shameless science geek.
More than 50 years passed before sonic drilling came back to one of its earliest uses as a pile driver. Today, the technology is far superior and set to revolutionize the piling industry with a just-patented method.
In Vancouver, British Columbia, rated the third best city in the world for quality of living in 2019 by Mercer Consulting, one thing is very clear: Geothermal has a lot of fans.
If there's one drilling project that could use the high-tech advantages of award-winning sonic drilling, it's the long-standing treasure hunt on Oak Island — an island in Nova Scotia, Canada, and home to a captivating legend about sunken tunnels, unexplained artifacts, strange stone markings and buried treasure.
Although geothermal energy still is in the early stages of technology adoption by mainstream users, today, in Canada, there are fire halls, sports complexes, ice arenas, swimming pools, civic centers, schools and entire residential communities heated and cooled by geothermal energy.
