I hope their models are good. I can imagine a scenario where their mitigation would make things worse, not better.
You’re thinking Army Corps of Engineers.
They mean to frac the volcano. There going to need bigger water supply.
This sounds like a ridiculously stupid and dangerous idea.
What could possibly go wrong?
Somebody did the math in a story years ago. They figured it would need a large, man made river from Canada, that would fill up a very large dam lake. Then a whole chain of underground nuclear explosives outside the magma chamber, to create a deep valley into the hot rock.
There is a vast amount of magma in the chamber, estimated to be able to fill the Grand Canyon a dozen times over, 12 to 28 miles beneath the ground. So after the deep valley is created, a river’s worth of water pours into it, creating an immense wall of steam. For perhaps 100 years.
We probably can’t cool down the magma, but we might be able to cool the rock containing it enough so instead of melting, it thickens, creating better containment of the magma.
Where does the heat go?