Posted on 04/18/2025 11:24:03 AM PDT by Red Badger
I’ve got a great idea — a giant outdoor event for every Demwit politician and rank-and-file stooge.
Then drill, baby, drill.
If Yellowstone erupts most of middle America would be affected
From the charts I’ve seen 2/3s of the country will be the fall out will reach the east coast and to the south and north.
Iceland drills to their magma that’s very close to the surface and injects water to make steam to drive turbines to give them very cheap electricity.
Does anyone know the difference between the magma below yellowstone and the magma below iceland?
Loved that movie!
A sharp volatile-rich cap to the Yellowstone magmatic system
Yellowstone has rhyolite and basalt, while Iceland is mostly basaltic.
Iceland does something else in addition, BTW, at some if it’s hydrothermal plants.
Carbfix and Sulfix.
LET THEM GO PRACTICE IN HAWAII
Pass the most isolated islands in the world sitting on volcanoes help never arrives.
my understanding is that rhyolite and basalt behave differently.
basalt the lava we get on the big island in hawaii—or iceland.
Rhyolite is the explosive stuff we get from say a Mount St. Helens.
basalt is slow molassas so you could drill right onto that like they do iceland.
So that also means that drilling into the rhyolite is asking for deep do do.
But a shallower well would get you steam to drive electricity like steam springs all over Yellowstone. That might be helpful too because that water system might be keeping that 2 mile cap stable.
Now where is this analysis wrong.
“NASA has even proposed a controversial $3.46 billion plan to drill into the volcano and pump water through its magma chambers, theoretically reducing eruption risks by cooling the system.”
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Headline! Extra! Extra! NASA proposes ending eminent super volcano eruption by cooling Earth’s core using ordinary tap water. Extra! Extra!
Design a massive power plant off of it. If done correctly it could power the North American grid for the next 20,000 years.
Poke a sleeping tiger?
Not too smart...
Just how does one prepare for a potentially earth shattering event? Warning will likely be minutes or hours, not enough time to evacuate the area that will need to be evacuated, i.e most of the Pacific Northwest and a good portion of the Midwest.
No matter what, they need enough funding to research it another 70,000 yearsfoe the sake humanity.
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