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by willis936 35 days ago
Also, I want to add on that if you lined the well to be single fault tolerant you will still be vulnerable to a high likelihood common mode failure from a single seismic event. Truly just the worst. The founders should pivot hard and fast.
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There are plenty of places with very little seismic activity.
And how many of those places have we dug 100 mile deep holes in and verified nothing has changed? It doesn't take a long look at fracking research to see that this line of reasoning doesn't hold.
You're describing everywhere with mines and a stable seismic environment. Arizona comes to mind.
100 miles deep? What are you even talking about?
100x one mile deep holes. It's in the deck you linked for a 1 GWe plant.