1 posted on
08/05/2015 7:47:13 PM PDT by
ckilmer
To: thackney
key comments
the current drilling process is prohibitively expensive for most interested parties, ranging from $5 to 20 million depending on the depth desired.
Mark Russell, CEO of Hypersciences, wants to change that. His method? Repeatedly firing projectiles into the Earth’s crust, which Russell claims is ten times faster than traditional drilling. He received a patent last year for his projectile-based system, and was recently funded about one million dollars by Shell’s GameChanger program to continue his research, according to GeekWire.
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the question is does this translate to 1/10 the costs. If so this could easily be transferrred to the oil drilling business to bring down their costs significantly and in a timely way if this technology came onstream in five years.
2 posted on
08/05/2015 7:50:15 PM PDT by
ckilmer
(q)
To: ckilmer
3 posted on
08/05/2015 7:50:25 PM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
(Henry Bowman where are you?)
To: ckilmer
Oh No They’ll Murder Gaia!!
I can hear the howling already!!
4 posted on
08/05/2015 7:51:01 PM PDT by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: ckilmer
Got the crew right here, ready to go.
5 posted on
08/05/2015 7:51:16 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: ckilmer
Well why not? We’ve got a spare.
Oh wait...
6 posted on
08/05/2015 7:51:45 PM PDT by
DoughtyOne
(if black lives matter so much, why don't blacks stop causing them to end prematurely)
To: ckilmer
They use an
"Ejecta Collecta?" That should work.
8 posted on
08/05/2015 7:54:14 PM PDT by
kinsman redeemer
(The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
To: ckilmer
Did Chuckie Schumer approve of this gun?
9 posted on
08/05/2015 7:56:02 PM PDT by
BipolarBob
(Hillary is as believable as Sharknado 3. Oh Hell No!)
To: ckilmer
Don't do it. You'll make an escaper hole for the lava and the crust will sink.
10 posted on
08/05/2015 7:56:27 PM PDT by
DannyTN
To: ckilmer
“There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.”
“You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dûm:”
13 posted on
08/05/2015 8:00:10 PM PDT by
DannyTN
To: ckilmer
It’s all fun and games until they split the Earth and then what, huh?
14 posted on
08/05/2015 8:01:11 PM PDT by
bgill
( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: ckilmer
Libs screamin’ EARTHQUAKE crosses my mind. You think they screamed about fracking?
18 posted on
08/05/2015 8:12:19 PM PDT by
rockinqsranch
((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
To: ckilmer
Thanks for the article. I know a bit about this endeavor...
To: ckilmer
21 posted on
08/05/2015 8:27:27 PM PDT by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: ckilmer
The deepest ever drilled was 40,000 feet (7 1/2 miles).
23 posted on
08/05/2015 8:34:11 PM PDT by
Repeal The 17th
(I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
To: ckilmer
It sounds only like an advancement of the old 'pole tool' or 'cable tool' method of drilling dating back to 1850s Sarnia/Oil Springs or Pennsylvania's 'Drake Well'.
To: ckilmer
To harness any sizable amount of our planet’s underlying geothermal energy for steam power, we would have to bore more than two miles into the crust. 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?
29 posted on
08/05/2015 10:07:34 PM PDT by
roadcat
To: ckilmer
Just to tick-off the moonbats they should name it....
NRA-1 ...
35 posted on
08/06/2015 6:23:25 AM PDT by
JEDI4S
(I don't mean to cause trouble...it just happens naturally through the Force!)
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