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> instead, it’ll rise naturally to the surface Well it isn’t rising to the surface thankfully because that would create an unbelievable amount of toxic polluti
by exabrial 2y ago
> instead, it’ll rise naturally to the surface
Well it isn’t rising to the surface thankfully because that would create an unbelievable amount of toxic pollution. it would also have to traverse through impermeable rock layers… otherwise we’d just have oil shooting through ground everywhere.
> through an outlet well
I see more. Pressurizing formations is pretty common in the oil and gas world. However, you can only do this with certain geologies. Most of the time it’s going to require fracking to get any kind of significant flow in most sedimentary rock geologies, because they’re simply is not enough flow through the formations.
The final note here is injecting fluids like this is that something that can be done everywhere. in some areas, this can actually cause miniature earthquakes because it’s lubricating slip planes.
Given Germany’s disastrous move away from nuclear power and the coal-lification of their power grid, Happy to see it them generate some actual clean power/heat, Is there one of the dirtiest producers in the EU.