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After Weeks of Seismic Activity, Iceland’s Volcano Finally Erupts
Legal Insurrection ^ | Tuesday, December 19, 2023 at 09:00am | Leslie Eastman

Posted on 12/19/2023 11:47:31 AM PST by Red Badger

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21 posted on 12/19/2023 9:14:23 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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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...


22 posted on 12/20/2023 5:51:36 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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Here’s to the folks on the peninsula having a Dickens of a good Christmas!


23 posted on 12/20/2023 5:53:20 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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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....


24 posted on 12/20/2023 11:03:58 AM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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Still waiting on Part Deux, but while looking for info on the Krafla fires, I ran across this paper from 2017...

Krafla geothermal system, northeastern Iceland: Performance assessment of alternative plant configurations">Krafla geothermal system, northeastern Iceland: Performance assessment of alternative plant configurations

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...

25 posted on 12/31/2023 4:22:43 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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How do they get that to work if the volcanic activity fluctuates?


26 posted on 12/31/2023 7:20:14 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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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.


27 posted on 12/31/2023 7:24:15 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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And on Krafla...

https://icelandmag.is/article/krafla-fires-one-largest-volcanic-eruptions-icelands-modern-history


28 posted on 12/31/2023 7:29:26 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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