Sentences with phrase «hot water drilling»

«It's pretty simple, the type of science you need to do, the difficulty is getting down there and the hot water drilling.»

At the site, they used a special hot water drilling system to dig into the ice.

Hot water drilling still posed challenges: A borehole filled with water would quickly refreeze, and the hole could still collapse shut under the sheer weight of the surrounding ice sheet.

Chad Carpenter, a hot water drill system specialist from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, secures the drill frame.

The camera encountered the same branch at 2,300 feet; the hot water drill had failed to solve the problem.

The galley is on the left, hot water drill equipment in the center left, surface infrastructure tower mid right, and the seismic sled on the right.

The galley is on the left, hot water drill equipment in the center left, surface infrastructure tower mid right, and the seismic sled on the right.

Not exact matches

Last month, a U.S. team successfully used a hot - water drill — a technology designed to prevent contamination — to reach subglacial Lake Whillans.

«We're discovering that many of the gas wells that have already been drilled produce significant amounts of hot water,» says Karl Gawell, executive director of the Geothermal Energy Association.

Then, aided by borehole cameras revealing in which direction the fractures formed, they would have drilled a second hole to intersect the new fractures and would have produced steam by pumping water through the hot fractures linking the wells.

A team of American scientists journeyed 1,000 miles across Antarctica to drill into the lake using a custom - designed pressurized hot water jet capable of melting 2,500 feet of ice in a few days.

By harnessing methods similar to those used to recover dense, viscous petroleum, engineers could pump steam or hot water down a drill hole to melt the hydrate and release more methane to escape.

Here at the South Pole, drillers are pumping hot water into the ice to bore holes that almost reach the bedrock.

A hot - water drill is the centerpiece of the project.

But liquid water in the cracks can drill like a hot knife to the base of an ice shelf, snapping it in two.

A British team directed by University of Edinburgh glaciologist Martin Siegert of the British Antarctic Survey returned from Antarctica's Lake Ellsworth last week, where it dropped off a drill, 3400 meters of hose, a giant hot water boiler, and four 1.5 megawatt generators.

Priscu is looking forward to a similar U.S. effort called the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling project next year, which will use a similar approach of melting a hole with hot water in order to reach the river - fed Whillans Ice Stream in West Antarctica.

The hot - water drill will be used to make a 1.9 - mile (3 - kilometer) borehole through the ice and into Lake Ellsworth.

He'd prefer that the Russians used more environmentally friendly drilling systems that use hot water and don't need kerosene and Freon.

To feed uncontaminated water to the hot - water drill, a 40 - foot shipping container held a water purification system with filters down to 0.2 microns and then a high - intensity ultraviolet lamp «that blasted any organisms that were still present,» Christner says.

Clean subglacial access: prospects for future deep hot - water drilling.

The technology differs from «traditional» geothermal in that rather than exploiting existing wells of earthbound steam and hot water, EGS drills deep — miles down — to access layers of heated granite that exist underfoot everywhere on the planet.

The so - called dry rock geothermal involves drilling very deep, pumping water down the hole, where it heats up, and then pumping the hot water back up to the surface using another source of energy.

Developers drill wells to reach porous and permeable rock containing reservoirs of hot water or steam that is then brought to the surface to drive a turbine and generate electricity.

The Collaboration will use drills that can make access holes 1,500 metres into the ice with jets of hot water, as well as other state - of - the - art techniques and equipment, such as autonomous submarines like the Autosub Long Range, the first of whose fleet is named Boaty McBoatface.

Enhanced geothermal systems, which require energy to drill and pump water into hot rock reservoirs, have life - cycle global warming emission of approximately 0.2 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour [11].

But a new «enhanced geothermal» approach works by drilling parallel wells deep into hot rocks which are then fractured using high pressure cold water.

Drill a well directly into the geothermal source and the hot water is piped through a system to provide heat.

When the Environmental Protection Agency announced last week that tests showed the water is safe to drink in Dimock, Penn., a national hot spot for concerns about fracking, it seemed to vindicate the energy industry's insistence that drilling had not caused pollution in the area.