Max Werner retweeted
As above, so below.
Today Europe committed 131 billion euros to defence, security and space in next year's budget. Five times the current level, and another five billion to scale up strategic technologies.
French President @EmmanuelMacron called for European demand to be pooled across operators, satellite builders and launcher companies.
The Director General of @esa, @AschbacherJosef set out an increased capacity with European rockets, crew vehicles and launch systems as a platform Europe can offer the world.
It is a serious programme and it deserves to succeed. Here is the part nobody said out loud today.
In the 1970s and 1980s, geologists drilled a rare earth deposit at Storkwitz in Saxony, over and over. They mapped it, and documented it, and then walked away, because the cost of reaching the rock was higher than the price of importing it.
Forty years later, the same continent is voting 131 billion euros for programmes that cannot be built without that rock.
Niobium in the nozzle extension, roughly 90% of world production in Brazil.
Germanium under every solar array, around 60% of global production is located in China and under export licence since 2023.
Tantalum in the flight electronics, with Congo and Rwanda at about 63% of world mine production.
Rare earths in every magnet, and Europe imports 100%.
Europe is not short of deposits. It is short of a reason to reach them, and that reason has always been cost.
We at @Hades are changing that.
We hold the exploration licence over Storkwitz today, and the technology - our proprietary laser drill - to make deposits like it economic.
As above, so below.
#internationalspacesummit
Max Werner retweeted
Hades licence win puts Germany on rare earth map dlvr.it/TTrsmV
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Europe talks about sovereignty. And drills less than it has in decades.
The new @EIB report delivers the number that should wake up everyone in Europe: to meet the targets of the Critical Raw Materials Act, Europe must increase its exploration spending tenfold. From €0.2 billion to €2 billion per year.
The report makes a second point unmistakably clear: The way out of this gap runs through technology and innovation.
Anyone who wants to make exploration and extraction in Europe competitive again has to tackle the most expensive, slowest part of the value chain - drilling itself, which industry data shows can account for up to 70% of total investment in an extraction project.
This is exactly where we come in.
Cerberus drills with lasers, not machinery. Our goal: cut drilling costs by more than 50%. Not as a marginal optimization, but as the answer to the structural bottleneck holding back European projects today.
Sovereignty begins subsurface.
🇪🇺 Europe's path to economic & industrial competitiveness starts with critical raw materials.
Strong investment, targeted policy, innovation are crucial in ensuring potential mineral sources can be explored locally.
Read our report for the full picture➡️go.eib.org/CRMStudy
Max Werner retweeted
The next bottleneck for European defence may not be weapons.
It may be critical raw materials.
Without secure mineral supply chains, defence spending does not automatically translate into defence capabilities.
Looking forward to discussing this and presenting @Hades at New Age Defence.
Max Werner retweeted
Wenn selbst die US-Rüstungsindustrie um mehr Zeit bittet, sollten in Europa die Alarmglocken schrillen.
Hat Deutschland überhaupt eine Rohstoffstrategie für industrielle Konkurrenz unter geopolitischem Druck? Oder reden wir noch immer über Lieferketten wie vor 10 Jahren?
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Max Werner retweeted
Zweite Woche bei @Hades.
Besuch im Headquater.
Der Laser liefert.
Industrielle Stärke beginnt in der Mine.
Wir bauen die Technologie dafür.
Stay tuned.
Max Werner retweeted
Wer bei kritischen Rohstoffen abhängig bleibt, wird auch technologisch abhängig bleiben.
Deshalb freue ich mich sehr, seit 01.05. bei @Hades zu arbeiten.
Rohstoffförderung ist keine reine Industriefrage mehr.
Sie ist eine Technologie- und geopolitische Souveränitätsfrage.
Max Werner retweeted
No mines, no missiles. No rocks, no rockets.
$8bn went into EU defence startups, with only $1bn of that in the supply chain. We are funding the drone while ignoring how critical the magnet is inside it.
I wrote about how we could fix it. Link below 👇
Max Werner retweeted
Good people of technology. Our biggest Order of Play.
Game time:
- @drwerner, Founder and CEO at @hades
- @tedpersson, Partner at @eqtventures
- Mats André Kristiansen, CEO and Co-Founder of Take Take Take
- @scmallaby, Author of THE INFINITY MACHINE
- @iamsebdeb, Marketing at @doss_hq
- @swyx, Founder at @aiDotEngineer
- @MettaWorld37, NBA All-Star and Founder of Perpetual Celebrity Commerce (PCC)
+ TBPN acquired, New Yorker vs OpenAI, The Infinity Machine
TBPN Acquired, New Yorker Vs. Sam Altman, Author of The Infinity Machine, Citrini Field Trip nitter.gq/i/broadcasts/1kKzDMoAm…
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BREAKING: Dr. Max Werner (@drwerner) Co-Founder of Hades Mining (@Hades) joins us live tomorrow at 12:00PM GMT to break down the current state of geothermal energy and critical mineral extraction from the perspective of Hades.
Proud to see @Hades featured as a Rising Star in the @NATO InnovationFund x @dealroomco report.
Europe’s deep tech and defence ecosystem is accelerating fast.
Rising Stars
Alpine Eagle
@ARXrobotics
Rocket Factory Augsburg
Hive Robotics
Alongside
@HelsingAI
@isaraerospace
@proximafusion
The Exploration Company
RobCo
@MarvelFusion
We are building the access layer to the underworld.
This is just the beginning.
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Max Werner retweeted
The @Hades partner programme is now live at hades.com! You lead the project, they'll bring the laser & support on capital + licensing 🤝
The new hades.com is live.
And beyond the technology, there is another message I am especially excited about.
We are now actively looking for partners with whom we can develop our first resource extraction and energy projects.
If you control geology, projects, licenses, land, data, or strategic access and want to work with @Hades, now is the time.
We are building technology first extraction for critical minerals and geothermal and are looking for exceptional partners who want to write history together.
More details on the website.
Become our partner.
hades.com
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One of the biggest European opportunities lies beneath us: critical minerals from our own soil. In order to get there we need to drill some deep holes at low costs. And in order to drill some deep holes at low costs we need some Insanely Powerful Lasers :-)
Check out hades.com to learn more about our Insanely Powerful Laser Cerberus (IPL Cerberus)!
Burn, baby, burn and follow @hades!
Max Werner retweeted
Geothermie ist die am meisten unterschätzte Energiequelle der Welt.
Solar wächst 38% pro Jahr. Geothermie? 2,6%. Nicht weil das Potenzial fehlt, sondern weil die Bohrtechnologie nicht mitgekommen ist.
Das @handelsblatt berichtet heute über die Start-ups, die das ändern wollen. Unter anderem auch über unsere Beteiligung @Hades.
Hades entwickelt Laserbohrer, die Gestein kontaktlos zerstören. Kein mechanischer Verschleiß, keine empfindliche Elektronik in der Tiefe, radikal niedrigere Bohrkosten. Bohrkosten machen im Bergbau 30–70% der Investitionsausgaben aus. Wer dieses Problem löst, erschließt nicht nur Geothermie, sondern verändert die gesamte Rohstoffgewinnung.
Warum wir investiert haben:
1.) Laser sind keine Laborexperimente. Industrielle Systeme im Bereich mehrerer Hundert Kilowatt existieren bereits heute.
2.) Hades will nicht nur Technologie verkaufen, sondern eigene Projekte explorieren und abbauen. Das ist ein fundamental anderes Geschäftsmodell als reiner Tech-Enabler.
3.) Das Team um CEO @drwerner hat gerade 15 Mio. Euro eingesammelt und will bis 2028 einen Kilometer Tiefe erreicht haben.
Europa redet über Energiesouveränität und kritische Rohstoffe. Hades baut die Werkzeuge, die beides möglich machen 💪🏻👍🏻
Zum Artikel:
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Max Werner retweeted
I had a conversation with Hades Mining CEO, @drwerner, last year right after their embargo broke and they announced themselves to the world.
Lasers, Mining, Under+Off World capabilties are all in the roadmap.
And we've only scratched the surface in conversation of this powerhouse of team.
The lore of Hades continues.
Dr Max Werner (@drwerner), Dan Gengenbach (@DanGengenbach), BjörnDressler, @Hades aren't just building drills they're creating an entire mining value chain to extract critical minerals & produce energy.
"The environment that this technology needs to work in is insanely hostile. Like it's like space being insanely hostile for technology."
"If you go deep underground, you have enormous amounts of pressure. You have rock, you have some gases breaking in. Everything is underwater the entire time."
"Our end product is ultimately not the drill. It's not going to be sold. It's actual ponds of critical minerals that we have taken out of the earth and the same energy produced ultimately through, for example, geothermal."
The drill is just the key that unlocks everything else.
Max Werner retweeted
Das @handelsblatt berichtet heute über unser €15M Seed-Investment in @Hades.
Warum dieses Investment etwas besonderes ist? Es hat das Potential eine kontinentale Erzählung zu verändern: Wir sind bei seltenen Erden nicht abhängig. Das ganze Zeug liegt unter unseren Füßen! Bisher ist es schlichtweg aufgrund der Geologie zu teuer, diese seltenen Erden abzubauen.
Hades hat eine komplett neue Verfahrenstechnik entwickelt. Mithilfe extrem leistungsfähiger Laser „schmelzen“ wir uns durch die Erdkruste. Und auf einmal wird der Abbau der seltenen Erden auch in Europa wirtschaftlich machbar.
Ein Wahnsinnsprojekt. Ein echter Moonshot. Wenn die fantastischen Gründer um @drwerner erfolgreich werden - woran ich glaube - dann verändert Hades die Gute-Nacht-Geschichten, die wir Europäer uns erzählen ❤️💪🏻
Let’s fucking go!
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Max Werner retweeted
“Europe will always depend on China for critical minerals.”
Wrong!
Time to fight back.
Today we’re announcing our €15M Seed investment in @Hades.
Hades is building insanely powerful lasers to melt holes into earth‘s crust to extract critical minerals from Europe’s own ground. Faster. Cheaper. Sovereign.
Let’s turn Sci-Fi into reality. Narrative change incoming 🔥
Max Werner retweeted
We have raised €15M in our Seed round.
Co-led by @HV_Capital and @HeadlineVC with strong support from our existing investors.
@Hades is building the world’s first tech enabled Extraction company. Our laser drilling tech will change what is possible in ISR mining and geothermal energy.
Europe needs sovereign extraction capability. We are building it.
#deeptech #geothermal #criticalminerals #funding
Max Werner retweeted
Europe has the lowest domestic production of critical minerals in the world. Somewhere between 4-5%. The next lowest is India at 24%. It's an incredible gap.
@drwerner, CEO and Founder of @Hades, on reigniting mining in Europe:
"Modern mining is already 80% technology-enabled, but a modern mining company is not a tech company."
Traditional mining companies operate like hedge funds. They manage risks and assets, outsourcing technology to hundreds of vendors. Because of that, they lose control of what that technology can actually do.
Hades Mining is different. They're building a mining company that develops its own technology and takes more risk to get Europe's critical mineral production up.