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What's the Deepest Hole that we can Possibly Dig? Thoughts & Commentary
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ม.ค. 2023
- What's the deepest hole that we can possibly dig? Here's the deepest we've dug and comparisons for size as explained by Real Life Lore. Have you seen Holes? Same.
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"Hand dug" would be things dug using muscle power. So, you were right with shovels, picks, pick axes, etc and buckets to pull the dirt/rocks out.
Thank you! I hadn’t gotten around to looking into this yet
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The key word is muscle power. It can be augmented by dynamite and other similar things, other relevant tools, (think about the legend of John Henry vs a machine digging tunnels) but digging wells in the late 1800's did not have many ways to go down other than the afore mentions tools.
I haven’t thought about John Henry in years! that has just activated a grade school memory
@@NoProtocol hopefully pleasant memories. Who knew that remembering something from 45 years ago would come in handy.
@@McKavian But surely steam engines powering drills would have been employed for a long time before the late 1800's?
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Hardest and most advanced materials used, but still the depth is limited by drill bits melting due to high temperature. Geothermal gradient at these depths is horrendous. I spent a few weeks working at one of the deepest mines in the northern hemisphere, with refrigeration, it was still over 40 deg C.
No the drill bits won’t melt at the depths we can currently drill at. Not even close actually.
It's not just temperature and pressure, as you pass the depth of the Kola borehole the rock becomes sticky and toffee like making conventional drills less effective. There are potential alternatives, but they are purely concepts at the moment (like pulsed laser drills) :)
Any particular reason the rock takes on that texture at that point but not above? Is it theorized that the viscosity is like that around the entire earth at above that same depth?
@@chrisjfox8715 I'm not sure, but I believe that the temp & pressure combination contributes to the change. From what I read the closer to the mantle you get the stickier the rock becomes. Though we haven't even dug 50% of the way through, so we've only got seismic data & drill attempts to go on 🙂
Once for a school field trip I went to Germany and one of the activities we had was a visit of the salt mine of Merkers, we go down in an elevator 500m deep underground then we drive in pickups at 50km/h in a big maze cave , the map showed it was immense, there was a big cavern with a giant descending screen where was projected a video on how they made the mine with tnt, 1 museum with all the machine they used through time and evolution,1 big concert hall where many groups have played including abba and 1 big room with a bowling and tree climbing(without tree climbing) activity at the ceiling of that room, and a gift shop at the surface. If one day you go to Germany definitely visit it.
We are at the limit. The thing is, the crust itself is turning "plastic" because of temperature and pressure. The drill hole will in effect start to close itself as one drill as it turns "toothpaste-like". It is why our ice-core drill holes close up almost instantly in Greenland and Antarctica. Ice is quite hard to fall on, but only at a 50-meter depth most glacier crevasses will start to self-heal by deformation rates. Thus we use drill hole fluids with the same density as water under pressure to keep them open between field seasons. In Antarctica, the cold is an advantage since the ice keeps stiff very deep despite of the overburden pressure.
Also remember, do not try to make the deepest hole in Iceland. The distance to the mantel is not too far as anyone can observe (15-20 km). Better go for some very old and thick continental crust. Here the depth may become 40-50 km, compared to 5-10 km for the oceanic crust. But take into account the rock type and overburden pressure - no hole will ever truly penetrate into the Mantel.
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The Deep Dive in Dubai is in fact exactly 60-metres deep (196,85 feet). So that was a pretty dang accurate conversion 😄👍 (and a nice bonus info about the new deeper pool in general, so thank you!)
@Brad1980the "," is used as a comma seperator in lots of languages, so that could be the reason why he did that, but the missing zero should've made obvious that it doesn't mean 196,850.00 but 196.85 instead👍
198.85 feet !
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I work in the water well industry, typically hand dug well are well dug by unconventional means. Usually they are referring to wells made with excavation equipment or literally dug by hand. But judging from the time when the endeavor was completed, I would assume it was dug by hand, dirt was removed with buckets and bricks were placed to stabilize the hole.
If you started in the right spot in the Netherlands, you'd save yourself 14 meters of digging
I saw a special on the Russian deep drill well and it was cool. As usual they wouldn't say what they found at the deepest parts. The reason they gave for stopping is tech related in that the amount of pipe used to drill the hole became to heavy. So, if they went any farther down they would not be able to pull it out to get samples or even change the bit. Which makes sense when you have five miles of pipe hanging down a hole that is a lot of weight.
Woodingdean well was indeed completely dug by hand actually, with some help through victorian engineering as well at the time through pulley systems. It was so deep they even had to pump clean air into it for the workers to continue..
i think the point there was that it wasn't dug only with literally hands in dirt, but shovels and muscle power
@@putivuelta9428 Obviously they didn't literally dig with their hands dude.
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I used to always wonder why someone didn't just dig a deep enough hole to boil water, then reroute a small stream and put a turbine on top. Seemed like an easier way to "free energy" than all the fusion experiments. I looked into it a while back. Apparently some people do that, but it's pretty expensive to set up and can only be done in certain places with the correct geography. Other than that, I've just always thought the Kola superdeep borehole was pretty cool
my late Father in law was involved in a project in the UK [nr Poole in Dorset poss' in the 1960/70/80's? in an area where there is oil drilling!] where boreholes were drilled in a forerunner of what we would now call a 'Heat Exchange' system. Unlike in places like Reykjavik Iceland where as I understand it water from geothermal sources naturally provides heating for the city's houses, back in the UK the project failed because the energy needed to pump the heated water in & out of the borehole was more than the energy costs [in terms of KW/hr] require to heat up that same water by conventional means on the surface !
Those exist, they're called geothermal plants.
Yes. I learned about them when I looked into it. Geothermal plants are interesting
Your top-of-the-head metric conversions are all pretty good.
The deepest tunnel in the world (not below-sea-level but below ground) is now the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland, at 2300m / 7546 feet, and 57km/35 miles long. And this depth makes sense because it was built to save trains the climb to the old Gotthard Tunnel under the Gotthard Pass.
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The woodingdean well actually reads like a horror story! Using the town paupers to dig a well in order to supply a workhouse and save on the expense of pumped water.
I need to look into this!
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What I find most interesting is the fact, that the deepest man made holes did not stop at the depth they reached because of a lack of technology.
They were not made deeper because of a lack of funding or need.
The Kola Superdeep Borehole did not go further because the Soviet Union collapsed in the middle of the operation. Therefor, the operation could not be funded any more.
The Z44 gas well was not made deeper, because the target (the gas) was reached.
So those examples do not reflect the technological peak but rather shows the limits from necessity or funds.
Oh, and in case you didn't know: There is a video on the Kola Superdeep Borehole from the Megaprojects Channel hosted by Simon Whistler.
There are various limitations to the depths we drill. Temperature is one but there is also the challenge in taking the debris out of the hole and the different geological formations you drill through. If you need to isolate the different zones with casing (metal pipe to provide structural support) then weight will eventually become an issue because you’ll need a Derrick and crane to support the weight of the casing as you lower it into place which will eventually be millions of pounds.
If I’m not mistaken right now the biggest hurdle is temperature drive. As others have mentioned.
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On the Underground cities, there's an entire city underground in London that's actually got a separate Mayor from the City of London.
There's an entrance in Buckingham palace that can be reach by boat on the River.
Apparently it's dates back to when the Romans founded London but that's just a myth imo.
Another cool fact is the even the Queen had to gain permission to enter the Above ground complex in London. I just thinks it's wild that there's like an Anti-London that's completely parallel in places above ground and underground.
People go Missing all the time, Urban explorers get hit with serious jail time for trespassing. The thing is the public only knows about the unoccupied spaces like old WW2 bunkers and Underground canals.
Entire sections were blocked off when the Parliament buildings were built on the River, they adapted the already complete underground City to house several Panic Rooms (more like Panic Towns lol) to allow escape under the city if the Parliament buildings were ever surrounded by Angry mobs or invading forces.
This was in the 1700's I think.
I heard stories about tunnels and full road systems that connected Britain to the mainland that were under the English channel, I know that ones unlikely but it adds to the mystery and it's fun to think about.
The only literary thing that came to mind was a book read when I was a kid in the 60’s called The Forgotten Door by Alexander Key.
Not really a story about a hole but more of a precursor to E.T. The Extraterrestrial.
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Diamonds tend to form under the high pressure and heat of molten iron that lets the carbon migrate and crystalize as it cools. Apparently these condition could be found in the up flow of some volcanoes making the core shafts of volcanoes a good place to check for natural diamonds (or any place where the erosion may have collected). There are a significant number of these volcanic shafts in Canada an Russia. The volcanoes mounds on the surface are long scraped away by glacial erosion of the past. Some companies have created open pit mines in the north to excavate these volcanic shafts but the interesting part is how they handle water infiltration at those northern pit mines. Some have deep wells surrounding the circumference of the pit mine. These are filled with heat exchangers and topped off with radiators that cool in the arctic wind. This keeps the water in the ground frozen acting like a dyke against water infiltration.
Physics trivia: If you were to drill a hole through the Earth and then drop a ball down that hole it would take 42 minutes to traverse the hole. If there were no friction you could drill the hole anywhere through the earth (not pole to pole, it could be a short piece going through only a small portion of the Earth) and it would still take the same amount of time. If you are mathematically inclined, it is a good calculus problem.
Perhaps, according to mathematical calculations, this will take 42 minutes (I don’t know), but in reality this ball will get stuck in the center of the earth, and will never appear on the other side
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Wouldn't the ball just stop at the centre of the earth because there would be no force of gravity on it?
@@impyrobot He is attracted to the center of the earth, having passed the center he will not be attracted to the other side until he gets stuck in the center
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depending on the method or use, we can dig quite deep relatively efficiently. either way the main limitation would be drill bits melting or getting severely damaged beyond the point of function due to the insane operating temperatures they would have to be operating at.
also hand dug refers to stuff like shovels pickaxes and buckets(basicly anything that you have to use by hand for it to actually achieve its intended purpose)
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Kola was the deepest I knew. Knowing we've gone deeper intrigues me, but this makes me reach for my side. I just fear anyone going to that extreme isn't doing it for science, they're doing it for profit.
The deepest we can dig is determined by the level of technology we have achieved among other things.. so with what we have available it will be interesting to know how low we can go. Interesting video but like you said it doesn't answer that question.
LOL it's funny you asked about the movie holes from 20 years ago funny and interesting movie.
I'm no expert on the subject, but if I could make an attempt to answer that question: we can dig as far as the equipment allows us to until it cannot stand the heat/pressure anymore. of course this leaves open the possibility that the answer changes as technology advances.
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5:33 i have two questions: how and why? Why would you do that? What is possibly there justifying that? I cannot help but be in awe, in all the meanings of the word...
Edit: Aight, ok, got it.
Suddenly I have the Beegees song in my head "How deep can we dig" (melody of "How deep is your love") :)
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Picks and short shovels were used to dig the woodingdean well
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I worked at the Bingham canyon Mine for, Kennecott Utah Copper.
Air pressure in the 4 km deep mine is about 1,6 Bar. So getting out already needs measures to prevent decompression sickness.
The crust of the earth, so the solid part, is very thin. So for ratio about the thickness of the skin of an apple. If the earth would be as big as a pool ball it would be smoother than a pool ball.
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I didn't just see the movie Holes, I read the book in school, in german.
Temperature is a hard thing to get around.It's not just a matter of running some coolant over the drill. Temperature and pressure effect everything not just the drill. In the Kola hole it was hot enough the physical properties of the rock began to behave more like a liquid than a solid. 1/3 of the way through the crust and it's already 400 degrees. Aluminum melts at 1200 for reference.
just because we advanced in technology does not necessarily mean we make advancements in digging deeper. There is just a limit to what materials are capable of no matter how advanced the technology is.
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Considering the amount of mining mentioned in this video, I feel like I should mention the Cobalt mines in Congo, using slaves for something that is in all our rechargeable batteries, as in still digging by hand, from kids to mothers with babies attached at the back
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I think it's not just hotter temperatures, but also the material to get through getting more dense/compact the further you go down, due to the massive pressure. Don't quote me on it though :P
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7:08 The answer to that would likely be close to about 12,742 km, depending on where you started the hole. ;)
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This video reminds me of a MIT research that tries to develop new technology to make deeper holes and use geothermal power plants instead of fossil fuel plants. I tried to put a link to the news but youtube deletes my comment.
That’s annoying, I’d like to read that! I’ll look for it myself. Thanks for bringing it up
You have to remove the debris when you dig a hole. I'm guessing, at that depth, you're removing something equivalent to lava. It would burn the drill and probably resolidify on the way out of the hole.
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Well we know that drill bits go soft at 180°C but if we were to dig a pit like a surface mine... we would need to respect the angle of repose of the material we are digging into to avoid digging too steep and leading to land slides.
he kind of did answer the question 70000 meters wich is how far the crust can reach down wich puts a stop to further digging due to magma flow and we actually have the technology to dig down that far even now if we really wanted to all you need is a really highpowered laser
I would imagine the problem with digging deeper is the actual metal we use. We would need some super heat resistant metal alloy.
They started testing Nuclear weapons underground in the 90's away from prying eyes and satellites, for obvious reasons.
But just think for a second how much open space underground you would need for that, nevermind how deep you would have to go.
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Montreal has an underground city that people can get lost in - they need way-finding signs. Japan has underground 'shopping streets' complete with restaurants. You don't want those too deep though because of fire safety. If a conventional surface building catches fire, you go down to get out, but underground you have to go up, which is a lot more demanding physically. Norway has an underground ice hockey stadium, which I think still holds the record of 180m free span. In HK we are currently constructing an underground sewage treatment works to serve a catchment of 1 million people. The best use for deep holes is pumped hydro-electric.
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Not yet! I’ll look them up right now, thanks Gary
The Z44-Chavyo well is only 2.5 km "deep". The biggest portion of the sell is horizontal, 10 km. The well is drilled "down" 2.5 km and then "sideways" for 10 km (6 miles).
Yes, I have seen the movie Holes. I actually read the book in grade school.
Somewhere in Australia in the middle of the outback apparently there's a whole town underground I don't think it's really super deep but it used to be some kind of mining town.
They do have a driven theater and places to park above ground but everything else in the town is in the mine.
And I don't remember the name of it it's some crazy Australia name like didgeridoo or something.
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I do see a physical limit, but not over lack of technology.
At some point the rock would gradually cease being solid and refill the hole, slowly oozing back into it like tar or honey.
just think of it this way.
the diameter of the earth is about 8,000 miles.
the deepest hole we've ever dug is less than 8 miles.
meaning, we've not even dug a 1/1000th of the diameter.
size comparison, if the earth were an apple, we aren't even through the skin yet.
Couldn't we dig as deep as we wanted if we were willing to make the hole big enough and take long enough to do it? Temperature is a problem? Expose it to air, let it cool, dig it out, repeat until the hole gets deeper, and expand the width as necessary for it to be open pit. Though I guess at some point it's less a hole and more disassembly of the planet but. Pretty sure this is a case of 'if brute force isn't working, you aren't using enough of it'.
Edit: spelling.
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Back when History Channel was actually a History Channel there was a series called Cities of the Underworld. For three seasons in the late noughties they toured the underground of the biggest cities in the world and some historical places like Cappadocia, Turkey.
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Yeah, I was thinking about this topic too - why don't we dig deeper (besides exploration, there are lots of diamonds further down too!), but it's not just temperature and pressure growing, you need to have something that actually moves that drill bit at the end. Just imagine how much would cost 12 kilometers of simple rope, while you would need really need some steel to actually do the job and prevent it from bending and twisting... Then again, I thought there could be made some drone-like drill on nuclear power that would just drill until batteries run dry and report to some Wi-Fi device of progress. Also, we could start drilling from ocean floor too, that's half job done already.... Well, yeah, we'll see, there are always new options for progress.
A steel cable of this length will break under its own weight.
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We probably COULD dig deeper currently. The deepest was an oil and gas well, aka they drilled that far to reach product....when it "dries out" it will probably be drilled deeper.
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the stone might get too soft? maybe where there are colder spots in the mantle that we can dig deeper?
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A lot would depend on the diameter of the hole and the taper: a 2" diameter hole is going to be a pain to get much deeper than a few yards/meters.
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I'm just spitballing too, but I have to imagine that carbon nanotubes would be able to withstand greater temperatures and haven't yet reached their maximum potential in general let alone in a specific application. Of course, for us to have gotten deeper assumes it is even being applied at all (or some other heat-resistant technology I'm not thinking of. There is a plastic combination that with a fraction of an inch thick can withstand a nuclear blast including radiation, but I haven't heard anything about it since the 90s. It was a guy not a company or government that discovered it and talked on the news, I didn't think he understood that the money hungry individuals he caught trying to break in were the least of his threats.
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