Message from @Lucienne d'Anwyl
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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?
Toffee is good
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
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.
drilling a hole through a major geological structure does jack shit
you have a reactor loop with dirty contaminated water and then another loop that passes through the tubine
Yeah I was thinking maybe not because the steam could get contaminated but you'd still want an emergency release valve even if its into a sealed chamber
scale scale scale
the steam is always contaminated
its been directly touching the rods
the scales drilling can work at are orders of magnitude below what the earth itself does
And this is what happens when u don't survey corrrectly
Yeah I thought about that but I'm not an expert on nuclear engineering so I went with doubt
Why am I suddenly getting images of Homer at the nuclear plant? XD
Here's a solution: We'll build the nuclear power plants in Mexico, and run power lines North into the United States.
Problem. Solved.
that was drilled into an existing salt mine, a very different situation