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Don't worry, we were doing nuclear fracking back in the days. Everything that could work has been tried for oil and gas exploration. https://en.wikipedia.org/w

Don't worry, we were doing nuclear fracking back in the days. Everything that could work has been tried for oil and gas exploration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gasbuggy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gasbuggy Regarding drilling operations that destroy value: you're forgetting that drilling is 1D while oil fields are 3D (technically quasi-2D with horizontal dimensions 100x to 1000x larger than vertical dimensions). If your drilling messes up everything in a 10 meter radius from the drill string, you don't care.

joshuacc 5y ago
Why do you think that drilling is one dimensional? Drilling at an angle, and even at gradually changing angles is common.
- tomrod 5y ago
  Technically embedded in that case, as your drill line can be represented (often) by a single parameterized function.
  - semi-extrinsic 5y ago
    Exactly. Unless you plan to zizag around all over the place, most of the reservoir won't be in the near-well region.
yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
> Don't worry, we were doing nuclear fracking back in the days. Everything that could work has been tried for oil and gas exploration. Likewise, everything that conceivably could be done with nuclear was tried or at least designed for a while there - lighting watches with radium, digging canals with nukes, space travel by continuously exploding nukes behind you... good times. (Horrifying times, but w/e;])
- dhosek 5y ago
  Not to mention https://gajitz.com/1950s-radioactive-science-kit-most-dangerous-toy-ever/ https://gajitz.com/1950s-radioactive-science-kit-most-danger...
- CRConrad 5y ago
  > Likewise, everything that conceivably could be done with nuclear was tried or at least designed for a while there - lighting watches with radium, digging canals with nukes, space travel by continuously exploding nukes behind you... good times. (Horrifying times, but w/e;]) "The top secret plan to explode a nuclear bomb in Yorkshire", by Tom Scott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceWZslOfEjs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceWZslOfEjs

joshuacc 5y ago

Why do you think that drilling is one dimensional? Drilling at an angle, and even at gradually changing angles is common.

tomrod 5y ago
Technically embedded in that case, as your drill line can be represented (often) by a single parameterized function.
- semi-extrinsic 5y ago
  Exactly. Unless you plan to zizag around all over the place, most of the reservoir won't be in the near-well region.

yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago

> Don't worry, we were doing nuclear fracking back in the days. Everything that could work has been tried for oil and gas exploration. Likewise, everything that conceivably could be done with nuclear was tried or at least designed for a while there - lighting watches with radium, digging canals with nukes, space travel by continuously exploding nukes behind you... good times. (Horrifying times, but w/e;])

dhosek 5y ago
Not to mention https://gajitz.com/1950s-radioactive-science-kit-most-dangerous-toy-ever/ https://gajitz.com/1950s-radioactive-science-kit-most-danger...
CRConrad 5y ago
> Likewise, everything that conceivably could be done with nuclear was tried or at least designed for a while there - lighting watches with radium, digging canals with nukes, space travel by continuously exploding nukes behind you... good times. (Horrifying times, but w/e;]) "The top secret plan to explode a nuclear bomb in Yorkshire", by Tom Scott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceWZslOfEjs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceWZslOfEjs