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To: RetiredTexasVet

If you’re getting down far enough to where drilling equipment melts, it should be hot enough to harness steam to run turbines and generate electricity.


41 posted on 02/25/2022 5:49:37 PM PST by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: Kevmo

No need to go that hot. Ultrasupercritical coal fired steam plants run at 620C no where near hot enough to melt high tensile steel these are the top of the technology pile for steam technology. Just going to suoer critical is good enough when thr heat source is effectively unlimited like deep rock geothermal the extra 5% in turbine gross efficiency is not worth going from 500C to 620C most coal plants run in the 300 to 400C range you could just replace the coal boiler with two deep bore holes and a pump system with steam clean up if you direct cycle it or better yet run a indirect loop cycle with distilled water on thr power island side. You lose 20C in delta T but then you don’t put geofluids through your turbine.

https://www.power-technology.com/projects/yuhuancoal/


42 posted on 02/25/2022 7:26:05 PM PST by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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