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Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite

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Re: Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite

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Post by leonidasrup »

cyberax wrote: post #40
notrustincloud wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

below and penetrating the water table with the potential for short and long half-life transuranic fissile products and a path of least resistance for any runaway conditions which is directly to an uncontained well head... with the extra bonus of installation proposed in 'spent' hydrocarbon bearing regions which implies reduced density substrates with all the tiny seismic outcomes and risks. perfectly safe /s

We can then build a primary school on top! And use the water from the well for heating directly. What could possibly go wrong!?!?

For example in Finland there is research done for nuclear district heating.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/fourth-finnish-m...

"Feasibility of small modular reactors for decarbonizing district heating systems: a case study of the Helsinki metropolitan area"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002954932...

Haiyang’s District Heating Project in China

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/carbon-free-heating-kee...

Re: Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite

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Post by Ma8ee »

stavros wrote: post #55
cyberax wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We can then build a primary school on top! And use the water from the well for heating directly. What could possibly go wrong!?!?

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We don’t need any new and untested technology to solve to stop spewing out greenhouse gases. We just need to scale up current green tech. It’s not know how and technology that is lacking, it is political will.

Re: Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite

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Post by noduerme »

baron816 wrote: post #32

I really like what https://www.deepfission.com/ is trying to do. They have the absolute simplest model for nuclear fission that I can imagine. They’re digging one mile (1.6 km) holes dropping low enriched nuclear fuel to the bottom, and filling them with water. The pressure from the one mile column of water is perfect for the reactor. From there, it’s basically a geothermal well. No need for an expensive containment…

I'm sorry, I've worked in advertising for much of my life, and I just can't get past the top line "Advanced Nuclear for the AI Era". That reads as an extremely desperate or opportunistic marketing pitch to me. Kind of like when you get a brochure for a condo in a high rise that will never be built...except even more shameless?

Re: Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite

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Post by redsocksfan45 »

MadnessASAP wrote: post #18
anakaine wrote: post #5

From the thesis: https://www.proquest.com/openview/624989df3cdd8055a6cee9affc... "For the application in EGS drilling, this device uses a metallic waveguide to carry the millimeter wave (MMW) beam to a standoff distance from the crystalline rock. Argon gas is used as the waveguide fill medium due to its ability to stay transparent to MMW’s at such deep depths and thus higher pressures [12]. Purge gas is also used to…

You don't need a significant flow of argon, just enough to keep unwanted gasses out of the waveguide. It's possible there exists a material that is transparent to mm waves, airtight, and can survive the conditions at the bottom of the hole. In such a case they could cap the waveguide and prevent any gas leakage. I'm quite sure Quaise is well aware that Argon isn't cheap and are already exploring multiple avenues for…

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Re: Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite

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Post by stavros »

Ma8ee wrote: post #62
stavros wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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We don’t need any new and untested technology to solve to stop spewing out greenhouse gases. We just need to scale up current green tech. It’s not know how and technology that is lacking, it is political will.

"We don't need to research any more potential solutions to this existential problem we're facing" is certainly a take.

Re: Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite

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Post by leonidasrup »

Ma8ee wrote: post #62
stavros wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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We don’t need any new and untested technology to solve to stop spewing out greenhouse gases. We just need to scale up current green tech. It’s not know how and technology that is lacking, it is political will.

If by "we" you mean the whole world, then we have to do a gigantic scale up of the current green tech, as current green tech produces on minuscule part of the global primary energy.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-primary-energy

Re: Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite

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Post by veltas »

noduerme wrote: post #63
baron816 wrote: post #32

I really like what https://www.deepfission.com/ is trying to do. They have the absolute simplest model for nuclear fission that I can imagine. They’re digging one mile (1.6 km) holes dropping low enriched nuclear fuel to the bottom, and filling them with water. The pressure from the one mile column of water is perfect for the reactor. From there, it’s basically a geothermal well. No need for an expensive containment…

I'm sorry, I've worked in advertising for much of my life, and I just can't get past the top line "Advanced Nuclear for the AI Era". That reads as an extremely desperate or opportunistic marketing pitch to me. Kind of like when you get a brochure for a condo in a high rise that will never be built...except even more shameless?

Probably because AI datacenters would benefit from tech like that.

Re: Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite

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Post by [deleted] »

baron816 wrote: post #32

I really like what https://www.deepfission.com/ is trying to do. They have the absolute simplest model for nuclear fission that I can imagine. They’re digging one mile (1.6 km) holes dropping low enriched nuclear fuel to the bottom, and filling them with water. The pressure from the one mile column of water is perfect for the reactor. From there, it’s basically a geothermal well. No need for an expensive containment…

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Re: Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite

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Post by mjhay »

noduerme wrote: post #63
baron816 wrote: post #32

I really like what https://www.deepfission.com/ is trying to do. They have the absolute simplest model for nuclear fission that I can imagine. They’re digging one mile (1.6 km) holes dropping low enriched nuclear fuel to the bottom, and filling them with water. The pressure from the one mile column of water is perfect for the reactor. From there, it’s basically a geothermal well. No need for an expensive containment…

I'm sorry, I've worked in advertising for much of my life, and I just can't get past the top line "Advanced Nuclear for the AI Era". That reads as an extremely desperate or opportunistic marketing pitch to me. Kind of like when you get a brochure for a condo in a high rise that will never be built...except even more shameless?

They kind of have to shoehorn “AI” in there have any hope of raising capital these days.

Re: Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite

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Post by hyperbovine »

noduerme wrote: post #63
baron816 wrote: post #32

I really like what https://www.deepfission.com/ is trying to do. They have the absolute simplest model for nuclear fission that I can imagine. They’re digging one mile (1.6 km) holes dropping low enriched nuclear fuel to the bottom, and filling them with water. The pressure from the one mile column of water is perfect for the reactor. From there, it’s basically a geothermal well. No need for an expensive containment…

I'm sorry, I've worked in advertising for much of my life, and I just can't get past the top line "Advanced Nuclear for the AI Era". That reads as an extremely desperate or opportunistic marketing pitch to me. Kind of like when you get a brochure for a condo in a high rise that will never be built...except even more shameless?

I think it’s a nod to the idea that AI is set to boil off the oceans unless some seriously novel ideas about power generation take hold.
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