On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 05:10:24PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: > > Why? Well drilling is hardly high-tech: it's well over 100 years old. > > You should be able to pick up an old cable-drilling rig in Texas for > > scrap price. For that matter, you could drive a well to 12 meters. > > There also some interesting "low tech" approaches. Google "drilled well" > > OR "tubewell". > > Roberto writes: > > There is also the issue of maintenance. > > I'm not talking about fancy wells with submersible electric pumps. This is > early 19th century technology. Any blacksmith can maintain it. I was talking about maintenance on the drilling gear. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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