Posted on 08/05/2015 7:47:12 PM PDT by ckilmer
Reminds me of the 1965 movie, “Crack in the World.”
Movie trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxzvREM2S94
They made a horror movie with exactly that theme, saw it when I was a kid, can’t remember the name. A giant gun shot into the earth to do research and the crust starts to crack, and they can’t stop it.
The deepest ever drilled was 40,000 feet (7 1/2 miles).
the deep question is how much it lowers costs.
I’m fascinated by Gerald Bull and the concept of a nuclear powered tungsten shell boring through our mantle. Like rescuing the P-38 on the ice shelf using melting probes.
“I’m thinking new bunker busting technology.”
Would seem like it.
IIRC there was a flick some 45-50 years ago with Dana Andrews as the scientist who was doing this exact operation. Despite his son in law’s warnings he fired a missile into the Great Rift. It caused a volcanic trench to open and travel across the Indian Ocean . If not stopped it would circle the globe, splitting the Earth in two. It was stopped by exploding a nuke, I think, in an inactive volcano in the trench’s path. Problem was the volcanic activity started a return to its point of origin. When it reached it the magma stream exploded and drove the mass between the two trenches into space, creating a new moon.
Seems like too much effort. Why not just drop a hardened straw into an active volcano, suck on it and get all the geothermal heat you could ever want?
The MOP is designed to be dropped in pairs. The first one clears the way for #2 down the same hole #1 created. Don’t know why they wouldn’t drop #3, #4, and #5 down the same hole.
volcanos are generally in inconvenient places
“The Core”: One of my all time favorite science fiction movies on the subject, I greatly appreciate the story line, the tech and the level of self sacrifice on the part of the crew for “the mission”.
Good question. With mud motors and bit technology we drill 10,000 ft. in a week to 10 days, including running intermediate and surface casing. It is going to be hard to ‘shoot’ to that depth, and what is going to control the formation fluids if they do?
This project has a long way to go.
Just to tick-off the moonbats they should name it....
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Good question. With mud motors and bit technology we drill 10,000 ft. in a week to 10 days, including running intermediate and surface casing. It is going to be hard to ‘shoot’ to that depth, and what is going to control the formation fluids if they do?
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Who kmows? But since Shell sprang for a million you have to believe that they are thinking that this could/might/maybe collapse drilling costs.
Its a moon shot. Only aimed at the earth.
However, one thing they do say is that the velocities are so great that the ground liquifies where it comes in contact with the projectile and then squirts up the drill hole. As would happen with a meteor strike.
It is going to be hard to ‘shoot’ to that depth,
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according to the article to get to the required depth —they shoot more than one shell—or however many it takes where each shell punches deeper
Nonsense.
They don't just need a hole. They need a borehole with the material removed, not the material jammed into the sides so tightly than nothing will flow out. That defeats the whole purpose in having a well.
The horizontal lateral at the end is going to be challenge as well.
Wouldn't setting casing each stage require some type of rig in place?
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