Message from @Kazza
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We're already achieving those depths with oil drilling.
oil drilling is a tiny pipe
and very expensive
nuclear is already too expensive to be profitable
While I question the dangers of drilling 2km into the ground in a populated area
yup
2 km is no problem
the casing keeps it capped
and stuff will still hit the water
I'd assume they already have outlets for steam
that would leave a very long pipe open to the enviornment meaning it is just INVITING an accident
@Samaritan - The drilling isn't the problem.
It's the fracking process and wastewater disposal. Fracking puts the rock under intense pressure, but the pressure is released once the rock cracks. Wastewater disposal does constant pressure, and that's what causes the quakes.
even 2km down lol
you also have to worry about flashin
It won't hit water it'd be in solid stone
Not dirt
how do you know?
the pressure at those depths is already far above anything humans can bring to bear
ever see what steam can do under pressure?
can you magically tell the entire composition of the rock for 2km?
it can cut your legs off at the knees
look up lithostatic pressure
I've seen water saws.
Quite a spectacle.
What are saws
during drilling, you log your mud or core
and uh
steam plants SUCK
a lot of reators
dnt actually have outlets
for steam
in the primary ystem
the steam gets sent down a duct
to be cooled
but stays inside the system
at all times
That's all correct but putting a 2k deep hole through any structure could still be hazardous and we don't even know said structure
you are refering to a dual-loop cooling cycle
ummmm....no
We make holes that deep all the time. That's not the problem.
In Oklahoma, it's the wastewater disposal wells that have caused all the Earthquakes.