and use the earths natural heat in the core to produce steam and thus drive a turbine to produce energy?
2007-02-15 09:48:33 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
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2007-02-15 09:51:21 · answer #1 · answered by poppy vox 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's an idea i suppose. A bit simplistic though. Someone MUST have thought about it and there's a reason it's not been done. Maybe you would have to refill the hole on a constant and rapid basis (counteracting the energy effeciency). Maybe you would merely produce a geizer, rather than a steam vent.
It's worth looking into. Look around the net.
2007-02-15 09:56:26 · answer #2 · answered by trickyrick32 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Surely drilling that deep would cause more pollution then it would produce energy. Plus there is the question of where it should be drilled, if it was a plausible idea countries would fight over whose soil it should be carried out on.
2007-02-19 09:46:00 · answer #3 · answered by Robyn H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats called a geothermal power plant. They exist. theyre expensive, but a viable possibility for large scale power in the future. Drilling deep enough is hard, and theres a limit to how fast you can put water in (or else the rock just cools too much).
2007-02-15 09:55:04 · answer #4 · answered by Kyle M 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That would work, but it's too hard to drill down through the Earth's the crust. The earth gets compacted and any drill would just bust.
2007-02-15 09:52:50 · answer #5 · answered by gav 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
how would we get there? heat is unbearable for humans even like .01% of the way to the core, and the act of pouring water might take more energy
2007-02-15 09:52:13 · answer #6 · answered by Docktor Worm 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Depends on where you put the Dirt/sand/gravel/whatever, if you put it on another place in the ocean, then no, it wouldn't, but if you would send it to the moon, or build a mountain with it, it would indeed drain down by the ammount of mass the Dirt/whatever took up
2016-05-24 04:39:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We can do that.
The equivalent exists in nature and is called a geyser.
Do a web search for geothermal energy.
2007-02-15 09:58:10 · answer #8 · answered by lawomicron 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good idea until the earth cools down into an ice ball. the fact that the earth is compact and has no leak to the outside atmosphere is what makes it so hot
2007-02-15 09:56:56 · answer #9 · answered by The Watched 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We do have that. Many places (Iceland for one) are heated by geothermal methods. Helps to live in a faulting zone.
2007-02-15 09:57:27 · answer #10 · answered by cheekbones3 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cos when the core cools down we would lose our electromagnetic field (the liquid centre's movement acts like a dynamo) = radiation from the sun = certain death.
But otherwise a good idea!
2007-02-15 09:53:57 · answer #11 · answered by jeanimus 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋