I hope their models are good. I can imagine a scenario where their mitigation would make things worse, not better.
Suuuuuuuuuuure.
I often wondered why no one else thought of that.
Just punch a hole in the bottom of the Wyoming Ocean and let it cool the Magna
NASA will kill all of us if we don’t stop them...
I have complete faith in rocket scientist pouring water on a volcano, they are experts from the govt - nothing could possibly go wrong.
Why is NASA involved in this?
"Of course, this plan is the definition of "long-term." In order to siphon off enough heat to neutralize the threat of the volcano, the geothermal generator would have to be run continuously for hundreds or thousands of years."
I love it when government tries to “help” nature. They’ll probably “help” give this volcano an easy exit for blasting out its pent up energy.
Who’s the goofball in NASA that devised this plan?
If they’re going to do that, they might as well just build a giant power plant.
You mean like the entire Yellowstone park is currently doing?
Those geysers and pools are hot for a reason?
Every time it rains or snows, it supposedly would be doing the same thing....and it hasn't worked yet.
This is funny. The given _primary_ benefit of the geothermal energy station NASA wants to build is to prevent a supervolcano from blowing a 25-mile crater on face of the earth. Usable energy is a convenient, secondary byproduct.
See what they’re doing there? They’re couching pet projects—even arguably straight-up beneficial ones—as operations to avert or avoid some world-wide calamity. A geo-thermal energy station project is ho-hum. Even Iceland had those. But a geo-thermal energy station that is _principally_ designed to save the world from a disaster? Well, you’d have to be a humanity-hating troglodyte to say no that!
This sounds like something dreamed up by Hollywood for a cheap disaster movie.
I know what! Let's drill into a powerkeg of gunpowder and steal the nitrogen!
Yeah! Poke a hole in it! Worked out so well at the Gold Kimg Mine.
So, NASA believes in global warming and that it will destroy the coastlines and kill the food. But, it will attempt to remove the heat (from the core of the earth, I presume, since it will just keep heating up the caldera) and transferring it to the water?? Oceans?? The very thing that they are afraid that global warming will do??
Is this what passes for science at NASA today?
The relative activity of underwater volcanoes in the Arctic and Antarctic may correlate with the thickness of surface ice. If there is a burst of energy seeking release from the earths core those volcanoes may be very active. If Arctic ice is really thinning then the pressure may be high and there is an increased probability that the supervolcano at Yosemite may erupt.Arctic ice thickness has very little to do with ambient air temperature.Although the thinner it gets more melting occurs as the energy of sunlight goes deeper.
I admit I am not a Volcanologist but the issue as I understand it with these caldera volcanos is this isn’t simply heat but pressure... The magma contains insane amounts of pressurized gasses, so once a crack finally reaches the surface, all of that pressurized gas instantly has a route out and expands causing the massive explosion... It’s not simply oh lots of magma, forcing its way out, it’s the near instantaneous release of pressurized gasses wishing the magma finally having a route to escape.
Think of it like a water heater with the pressure release valve stuck shut, once the vessel fails all the pressurized steam has an escape route
I’m not sure how trying to steal the thermal energy via this method would lessen the gassious pressures in the magma.
Well they better be dang careful. Manbearpig told us that it’s millions of degrees hot down there.