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

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177 points mooreds | 1 comments | 06 Sep 25 20:26 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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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daedrdev ◴[06 Sep 25 22:04 UTC] No.45153285[source]▶
Football fields, despite being a meme, are very easy for Americans to visualize
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rascul ◴[07 Sep 25 00:02 UTC] No.45154007{3}[source]▶
Canadian football fields are bigger
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1. _DeadFred_ ◴[07 Sep 25 00:36 UTC] No.45154211{4}[source]▶
I'll have you know my Canadian friends have told me it's OK, American football fields are average sized (definitely not less than average).