NASA: The same people that fudged the books on so-called Global Warming.
Posted on 09/18/2017 6:37:29 AM PDT by rktman
Amid a summertime swarm of hundreds of earthquakes underneath Yellowstone National Park, NASA is developing a plan to tame a “supervolcano” that some experts believe is well overdue for a catastrophic eruption.
The scientists’ plan: cool down the volcano.
Volcanoes erupt when a certain heat threshold is built up within the magma, meaning that if enough heat can be let out of the volcano, it will never erupt. NASA’s idea is to pump water into the volcano after opening up a path via drilling. In theory, the plan would extract heat from the volcano and could even provide a new geothermal power plant.
There’s only one problem: The process might trigger an eruption.
Brian Wilcox of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology told the BBC an attempt to drill from the top of the magma chamber could accidentally cause the very thing the drilling was designed to prevent. To avoid that risk, he suggested drilling from outside the borders of Yellowstone and coming into the supervolcano from the lower side.
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Yes, a couple of bajillion dollars will avert catastrophe.
MAGMA? MAGA!!!
What could possibly go wrong?
That heat has to go somewhere.
Where are the global warming zealots when you need them?
Sheer hubris.
ping
Geotherm heat/elec for the Mountain West!
MYSTERY SHOCKS AT NORTH KOREA'S SACRED VOLCANO TRIGGER ERUPTION FEARS AFTER NUCLEAR TEST
China has limited access to a nature reserve on its border with North Korea after mysterious seismic shakes at the rogue nation's nuclear test site were detected less than 10 minutes after it launched a missile earlier this month.Beijing reportedly closed the site over fears that underground detonations by the North Koreans at a facility near Punggye-ri could lead to rockslides and even trigger an eruption of the active volcano Mount Paektu, which is sacred to North Korea and located right on the border between the two countries.
With a volcano the size of Yellowstone National Park, the water needed would be huge. Diverting a river to this task would not be enough; it would just result in a super massive steam explosion and turn a bad problem into a terrible problem.
Maybe some MAGMA will take care of kim jong dung for us.
The water injection will result in superheated steam that will increase the magmatic pressure resulting in superheated magma that will expand into a super eruption.
The resulting CO2 release will provide so much green house cover that the earth, at least eastern North America, will toast.
Inducing catastrophic fractures aside, how do they think they can remove enough heat to cool that much magma enough to mitigate the threat?
Interesting thought experiment, which may lead to useful conclusions, but won’t result in actually cooling enough magma to avert a supervolcano.
Yeah, usually spraying cold water on to a molten glob does NOT have good results.
Lunatics. A Bond villain couldn't think up a more dangerous weapon to blow up the United States. Of course we seem to be addicted to destroying ourselves at a political policy and control level, so bank on this one baby!
Wouldn’t that be sweet?
MAGA MAGMA!
I don’t mean to sound snarky, but wouldn’t boring a giant hole down to the molten lava of the earth’s core nudge global atmosphere temperatures a bit higher?
“at least eastern North America, will toast.”
If that means I can ride my Harley all year round, make it so.
Pump in all that water, it turns to superheated steam, and the upward spew of earth crust would probably dwarf any natural occurrence.
Nothing like trying to help out when no help is wanted. Or even possible.
The interior of the earth shall expel whatever amount of molten matter necessary to relieve internal pressures. Whether it comes spouting out of a supervolcano caldera or along seams at the Pacific ring of fire, the long-term cooling of the earth and consequent overall shrinkage of the external crust comes to some kind of equilibrium, with or without the “help” of mankind.
Easier and more productive use of time - terraform Venus, turning it into a habitable place for human beings. All the elements are there, just get rid of the excess heat and allow the rainclouds to form and cool the planet, and form oceans. Lots of pristine new real estate then.
Note I said I "had a supervisor". It blew the 3/8" plate boiler steel wide open. The pop-off relief valves could not vent that many cubic feet of steam expansion in such an explosive state. He was very fortunate he wasn't killed.
He was terminated after it was certain he was ok and drug tested.
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