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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
Can you call your local builder to construct a nuclear power plant for you?
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Sure, if you include GE & Westinghouse in the list of builders, or the French. Point is that there are people who know how to build nuclear plants, how much it will cost, and who will guarantee a working result putting out a GWatt or whatever.
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The temperature at ~8 miles is ~300C, and sure, you could not put an infinite amount of water down there, but the surface area is pretty big, even if you only count the hole itself; and leave out any cracks or fissures.
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But what if you do have cracks & fissures? There goes a bunch of your steam pressure.
There's nothing wrong with geothermal: as I mentioned, there's a plant up the road that's been cranking out a hundred MWatts or so for years, and a number of others around the state. But despite the fact that Nevada is close to the top in geothermal resources, there's only about 320 MWatts total. Certainly not to be neglected, but only a small fraction of what the state uses.