Comment by wrs 1 day ago Next up, the Boring Company gets imaginary contract for underground datacenters, is now valued at $500B. 4 comments wrs Reply kklisura 1 day ago Nah. They get contract for mining on Mars, valued north of $1T. m463 1 day ago there was an article recently about a company wanting to put nuclear reactors at the bottom of very deep boreholes (like km deep).I thought that was actually quite interesting/practical, because if there is a problem, you can just bury the problem.not like tmi/fukushima/chernobyl DaedalusII 1 day ago Interesting idea. 2km deep could work. I'm not sure how cooling or maintenance would work.Depth below surface | Typical temperature (°C) | Indicative cost to drill 1.2 m diameter hole500 m | 15–25 | $5–10 million1 km | 25–40 | $10–20 million2 km | 50–70 | $25–45 million3 km | 75–100 | $50–80 million4 km | 100–130 | $90–140 million5 km | 130–160 | $150–250 million m463 20 hours ago maybe not the article I read, but similar:https://spectrum.ieee.org/underground-nuclear-reactor-deep-f...
m463 1 day ago there was an article recently about a company wanting to put nuclear reactors at the bottom of very deep boreholes (like km deep).I thought that was actually quite interesting/practical, because if there is a problem, you can just bury the problem.not like tmi/fukushima/chernobyl DaedalusII 1 day ago Interesting idea. 2km deep could work. I'm not sure how cooling or maintenance would work.Depth below surface | Typical temperature (°C) | Indicative cost to drill 1.2 m diameter hole500 m | 15–25 | $5–10 million1 km | 25–40 | $10–20 million2 km | 50–70 | $25–45 million3 km | 75–100 | $50–80 million4 km | 100–130 | $90–140 million5 km | 130–160 | $150–250 million m463 20 hours ago maybe not the article I read, but similar:https://spectrum.ieee.org/underground-nuclear-reactor-deep-f...
DaedalusII 1 day ago Interesting idea. 2km deep could work. I'm not sure how cooling or maintenance would work.Depth below surface | Typical temperature (°C) | Indicative cost to drill 1.2 m diameter hole500 m | 15–25 | $5–10 million1 km | 25–40 | $10–20 million2 km | 50–70 | $25–45 million3 km | 75–100 | $50–80 million4 km | 100–130 | $90–140 million5 km | 130–160 | $150–250 million m463 20 hours ago maybe not the article I read, but similar:https://spectrum.ieee.org/underground-nuclear-reactor-deep-f...
m463 20 hours ago maybe not the article I read, but similar:https://spectrum.ieee.org/underground-nuclear-reactor-deep-f...
Nah. They get contract for mining on Mars, valued north of $1T.
there was an article recently about a company wanting to put nuclear reactors at the bottom of very deep boreholes (like km deep).
I thought that was actually quite interesting/practical, because if there is a problem, you can just bury the problem.
not like tmi/fukushima/chernobyl
Interesting idea. 2km deep could work. I'm not sure how cooling or maintenance would work.
Depth below surface | Typical temperature (°C) | Indicative cost to drill 1.2 m diameter hole
500 m | 15–25 | $5–10 million
1 km | 25–40 | $10–20 million
2 km | 50–70 | $25–45 million
3 km | 75–100 | $50–80 million
4 km | 100–130 | $90–140 million
5 km | 130–160 | $150–250 million
maybe not the article I read, but similar:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/underground-nuclear-reactor-deep-f...