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How do they propose to remove the vaporized material from the bore hole?
by engineer_22 4y ago
How do they propose to remove the vaporized material from the bore hole?
- digdugdirk 4y agoThe best part about vaporization is that there's nothing left to remove.
- engineer_22 4y agoI can't tell if you're serious or not. If that's true, they're proposing to convert mass to energy?
- rexreed 4y agoMy understanding of the term vaporization means turning a solid into a vapor... so that implies there's nothing substantial left after vaporization that can't be otherwise removed simply through ventilation.
- engineer_22 4y agoMy understanding is they propose to excite the material with electromagnetic waves until it undergoes a phase shift, solid to liquid to gas. So then they have superheated gaseous rock in the bottom of the bore hole, how do they get it out? Conservation of mass: it must go somewhere. Ventilation isn't so simple. The gaseous rock will condense, then harden on the walls of the ventilation tube. Or, maybe it reacts with the materials of your down-hole equipment.
- yetihehe 4y agoIf they put enough high pressure chilled air or water to cool that gas, it may change into lots of ash before it condenses on the tube.