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Cape Station, future home of an enhanced geothermal power plant, in Utah

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filenox ◴[06 Sep 25 21:08 UTC] No.45152845[source]▶
Most wells at Cape Station are between 8,000 and 9,000 feet deep, and the deepest one extends a mind-blowing 15,000 feet below the surface. That is about the depth you'd get to if you stacked 50 Statues of Liberty on top of each other!

For those who prefer a less American-centric metric: 8,000–9,000 feet is approximately 2.5 kilometers. 15,000 feet is about 4.5 kilometers — roughly the height of 14 Eiffel Towers stacked on top of each other!

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ajkjk ◴[06 Sep 25 21:17 UTC] No.45152917[source]▶
It's so silly to use statues of liberty as a metric when nobody really knows how tall it is either (famously it's a lot smaller than people expect).
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pwython ◴[06 Sep 25 21:28 UTC] No.45153019[source]▶
I'm actually shocked how big the Eiffel Tower is.

https://www.size-explorer.com/en/compare/buildings/eiffel+to...

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1. daemonologist ◴[06 Sep 25 22:16 UTC] No.45153383[source]▶
It was the tallest freestanding structure in France from 1889 to 2004 (when it was surpassed by one of the pillars of the Millau Viaduct; it's still the second-tallest). Must have been absolutely mind blowing at ~312m when it was new - the record was around 150m for centuries before it.