You can have geothermal power everywhere if you drill deep enough

Re:You can have geothermal power everywhere if you drill dee... by dpark on Saturday February 26, 2022 @09:00AM (#30477607)

Out of curiosity, what were you digging with? Unless you were digging with a toy sand shovel or making a very large hole, that seems like a very long time.

As a kid, my cousin, my sister, and myself were able to dig a hole deep enough for me to be completely inside in an hour or two using a post hole digger. (Yes, this is a very stupid idea.)

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Re:You can have geothermal power everywhere if you drill dee... by jmacd on Saturday February 26, 2022 @09:15AM (#30477706)

You have to make sure it's straight, drop sheathing in to the hole, and then cap it if it isn't going to be used right away.

More importantly, geothermal/ground source is rarely 1 well either, in our case it was 8.

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Re:You can have geothermal power everywhere if you drill dee... by NavinF on Saturday February 26, 2022 @10:40AM (#30478439)

A shovel. I couldn't get past 1m because of the rocks were too difficult to shatter.

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Re:You can have geothermal power everywhere if you drill dee... by dpark on Monday February 28, 2022 @09:48PM (#30508731)

That’s fair. We were not digging through rocks.

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