Chapter 372

Now that the location of the well has been chosen, Cao Daren's drilling rig is naturally used again.

He took Chen Xin's workers to Linshi No.7 Middle School to prepare for the drilling of the return well, while Chen Xin continued to complete the installation and commissioning of the heating hub with the rest of the workers.

Because the two groups of people have to work separately, Cao Daren's group needs to rebuild a stronghold on the side of the seventh middle school to settle their tents.

This also makes the first thing they do after they go to the seventh middle school is to dig a hole in the snow.

In the original snow cave on the side of the railway station, the space left by Cao Daren and his group of workers after they left was not wasted. Professor Zhang took the members of the geological exploration team to live in, and helped to improve the snow cave, making it more comfortable to live in.

For those who are engaged in geological exploration in the field all the year round, they live in tents for a long time than they live in houses.

The years of trekking through mountains and rivers have made these geologists lose their scholarly spirit. On the contrary, they have accumulated a lot of field survival experience, and everyone can be called a master of field survival.

In Professor Zhang's opinion, the living conditions of snow cave tents are not much worse than when they were in the wild, and in many aspects they are even better.

"It's much better than when I just started working! At that time, I was just in my twenties. A young boy who had just graduated from school went to Wulingyuan with the geological team to do surveying and mapping. At that time, there was no tent. We just built a shelter with branches and leaves and spent a whole month outdoors During lunch time, Professor Zhang was holding a very old aluminum lunch box. While eating lunch, he told Chen Xin about his experience in his youth: "it's like now, tents, sleeping bags and ponchos are so well equipped! It was amazing that we had a rubber raincoat at that time

Listening to Professor Zhang's story, Chen Xin was quite touched.

At the age of Professor Zhang, when he was a young man in his twenties, it was the most turbulent time in the country. At that time, he was still able to endure the harsh conditions to engage in geological research rather than sports, which was very rare in those years.

"Professor, why do you use this old lunch box all the time? Now the weather is so bad, this kind of old metal lunch box will soon be cold, and it's very inconvenient to use. I'd better get a new lunch box for Professor! " Chen Xin noticed the lunch box in Professor Zhang's hand. Although he didn't know why he used such an old lunch box, Chen Xin still wanted to give him a lunch box that could at least keep warm.

However, Professor Zhang shook his head and refused Chen Xin's kindness with a smile: "no, this lunch box has been with me all my life. There's no need to change this old man when I'm old, and this lunch box is of great significance to me."

Professor Zhang's words let Chen Xin pick eyebrows, but did not say anything more about it.

"Professor, how about the distribution of dry hot rock resources in Linshi?" Chen Xin turned the topic to his work and asked him another question he was most concerned about at this time.

Compared with the heat supply hub using water and heat resources, what Chen Xin really wants is an energy tower that can exploit deep geothermal resources. After all, an energy tower is more powerful than a heat supply hub in terms of power and efficiency.

But what the power tower needs is to drill a hole thousands of meters deep underground, not just hundreds of meters deep.

No matter the total amount of construction or the technical difficulty, they are totally different.

"The terrain of Linshi area is typical of two mountains and one gully, the terrain is high in the South and low in the north. Although the whole city is east-west, it is still a north-south geological fault from the overall terrain. The main geothermal resources of Hunan Province are distributed in this fault zone." While eating, Professor Zhang explained to Chen Xin the topography and the distribution of geothermal resources in Linshi: "on this fault zone, there are major reserves of dry hot rock resources in Hunan Province.

Because of the formation of geological faults, it is relatively easy to exploit the shallow and middle geothermal resources in this area. Many of them even form hot springs and gush out of the surface. However, due to the formation of geological faults, the geological structure in this area is relatively complex. If we want to exploit the deep geothermal resources, drilling will be a huge challenge. "

Chen Xin's heart sank when he heard Professor Zhang say so.

The implication of Professor Zhang is very simple. Let Chen Xin concentrate on the development of shallow and middle geothermal resources first, and think twice about the deep underground resources.

Chen Xin naturally listened to Professor Zhang's suggestion, but he didn't give up his idea on the development of deep geothermal resources, instead, he considered it more carefully.

"Even if it's a challenge, now we have to face it." Chen Xin's tone is a bit heavy, but he is also very firm. He asked Professor Zhang, "Professor, if we want to exploit deep geothermal resources in Linshi, what problems do we need to face?"

"That's too much. First of all, you have to solve the problem of drilling rig." Professor Zhang put down his spoon and pointed out the biggest difficulty: "if you want to exploit deep geothermal resources, you must have a professional drilling rig. Your friend's drilling rig not only does not have enough depth, but also has a very limited diameter. It's possible to exploit shallow and middle geothermal resources like now, but if you want to continue to dig deeper, it's not so difficult It's easy.The geological structure of Hunan Province is very complex. If you drill down with this bit, you can hit anything. It's OK to say that the rock strata are drilled slowly. But if you hit other geological strata, it's very troublesome. If you don't have rich experience, it's very difficult to deal with all kinds of problems in the drilling process. "

"You don't have to worry about the rig. I'll solve it." Among the problems pointed out by Professor Zhang, what Chen Xin is not worried about most is the problem of drilling rig, which can be solved only by upgrading once.

However, the complicated geological problems mentioned by Professor Zhang can not be solved by Chen Xin. After all, no matter how he upgrades, it is nothing more than improving the bit, which cannot affect the formation itself.

Unless Chen Xin is able to produce a giant laser drill or a planetary miner to directly cut the strata for mining, the drill will have to face the competition between the drill bit and different strata.

As for the laser drill and planet miner, this is obviously not something Chen Xin should consider now. In his spare time, he might as well build a world engine to directly transform the earth's environment.

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