Posted on 02/17/2017 1:07:51 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
What kind of well is that? It would be flowing white hot liquid diamond. If any pipe we know could withstand it.
What kind of well is that? It would be flowing white hot liquid diamond. If any pipe we know could withstand it.
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40,000 feet is only about 7.5 miles. I have read reports we have drilled to around 45000 feet. The earth’s molten core is estimated to be 1800 miles down so 7.5 miles barely scratches the outer mantel, yet it is well below any resting place for fossil matter, which would form the base for crude.
Well OK. The Moho project. It found fossils of single celled organisms and a temperature like that of kitchen ovens.
http://www.iflscience.com/environment/deepest-hole-world/
So what would this mean. Not quite a proof of a 7.5 mile deep fount of petroleum, though petroleum might yet be possible from biotic sources. It might look something more like coal than oil under such conditions.
But if we are going to be talking coal and such solid things... why not some more ambitious vegetation harvesting project? Surely, America’s lawn clippings alone ought to be worth something in the energy picture, and would probably be more welcome lighting our lights than rotting slowly to methane in landfills.
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