Posted on 12/19/2023 11:47:31 AM PST by Red Badger
Update...
https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2023/12/20/gaeti_jafnvel_lokid_um_eda_eftir_helgina/
Possibly all over but the shouting.
It may have pulled a Christmas Carol and done it all in one night.
Hope they’re right...
Here’s to the folks on the peninsula having a Dickens of a good Christmas!
Iceland is the cause of ‘global warming’.
How to stop the volcanoes from erupting?
Maybe throw in rice in the caldera. The rice when cooked will expand and seal the caldera thereby saving the planet.
Just need to raise taxes to buy lots of rice....
Found this bit particularly intriguing...
...The 30 MW double-flash Unit 1 came online in 1978, preceded in 1969 by the 3.2 MW back-pressure wellhead unit at nearby Namafjall, about 7.5 km to the south...
How do they get that to work if the volcanic activity fluctuates?
Darned if I know, so I looked around. :-)
Try here...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/double-flash-power-plant
FWIW, I just find it interesting that the two modern fissure eruptions are taking place within spitting distance of geothermal plants.
And on Krafla...
https://icelandmag.is/article/krafla-fires-one-largest-volcanic-eruptions-icelands-modern-history
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