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HyperSciences Wants To Drill Into The Earth With A Huge Gun
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| July 23, 2015
| Dave Gershgorn
Posted on 08/05/2015 7:47:12 PM PDT by ckilmer
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Multiple shots? Unless ejecta are carefully controlled, the borehole internal dimensions will change with every shot. That will be a complication, as it will affect trajectory, efficiency, terminal impact force, and the ejecta evacuation from subsequent shots. There remains the problem of controlling formation fluids at reservoir pressures of 4500 psi in an open hole with no fluids.
Even air resistance would become a more complex problem with depth.
For Shell, a million dollars indicates interest, but that is small money in the big picture. It may well work in areas where producing formations are shallow (3000 ft. or less) and large numbers of vertical holes are desirable versus horizontal drilling.
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08/06/2015 1:12:08 PM PDT
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Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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08/07/2015 5:28:36 AM PDT
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thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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It might be something which could work for geothermal wells.
If you don't start trying something different, there is no chance of developing something which will work.
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08/07/2015 9:03:39 AM PDT
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Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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