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Super Deep Boring Technology
Abstract Fracking, injecting heated water or steam into rock at depth with proppant to hold open cracks and facilitate flows, has changed the world energy market. Instead of shortages predicted by proponents of peak oil formulations, natural gas is now plentiful. Far more plentiful than the oil and gas trapped in classical reservoirs, and even tight gas and coal seam methane, are the vast deposits of deep gas which must exist given vast geophysical evidence. Methane as “fossil fuel” is a misnomer as methane is abundant in the cosmos and at great depths in the earth. To date conventional methods are unable to access this depth. This paper details the need to develop new super deep boring technologies, not just to access deep gas, but to garner geothermal power under every location on Earth. The design and method of rock melting device is presented but independent computations and calculations show that such devices modeled on the subterrene originally developed in Los Alamos Government Labs, although later patented, cannot work. As there is no significant benefit to boring through rock melt or solid rock at great pressure, a self-propelled shaped charge penetrator previously offered as a self-propelled bunker bomb is offered as a viable method to reach depths to access deep gas. Other lucrative applications for this device is also proposed.
Super Deep Boring Technology
Abstract Fracking, injecting heated water or steam into rock at depth with proppant to hold open cracks and facilitate flows, has changed the world energy market. Instead of shortages predicted by proponents of peak oil formulations, natural gas is now plentiful. Far more plentiful than the oil and gas trapped in classical reservoirs, and even tight gas and coal seam methane, are the vast deposits of deep gas which must exist given vast geophysical evidence. Methane as “fossil fuel” is a misnomer as methane is abundant in the cosmos and at great depths in the earth. To date conventional methods are unable to access this depth. This paper details the need to develop new super deep boring technologies, not just to access deep gas, but to garner geothermal power under every location on Earth. The design and method of rock melting device is presented but independent computations and calculations show that such devices modeled on the subterrene originally developed in Los Alamos Government Labs, although later patented, cannot work. As there is no significant benefit to boring through rock melt or solid rock at great pressure, a self-propelled shaped charge penetrator previously offered as a self-propelled bunker bomb is offered as a viable method to reach depths to access deep gas. Other lucrative applications for this device is also proposed.
Super Deep Boring Technology
Bolonkin, Alexander (author) / Friedlander, Joseph (author) / Neumann, Shmuel (author)
2019
Article (Journal)
English
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