Posted on 09/18/2017 6:12:23 AM PDT by SandRat
By WND. Amid a summertime swarm of hundreds of earthquakes underneath Yellowstone National Park, NASA is developing a plan to tame a “super-volcano” that some experts believe is well overdue for a catastrophic eruption.
The scientists’ plan: cool down the volcano . . .
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 super-volcano from the lower side.
But some suggest such schemes are doomed regardless of how they are executed. Jerusalem Rabbi Rami Levy said science has limits and told Breaking Israel News natural disasters and earthquakes will be an inevitable feature of the end times.
Joel Richardson, New York Times best-selling author of “The Islamic Antichrist” and the new book “Mystery Babylon,” urged caution, insisting such disasters are not necessarily a sign the end is nigh. But he said they could have supernatural significance. (Read more from “NASA Plan to Stop Super-volcano Sparks Doomsday Fears” HERE)
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How NASA Plans to Prevent a Super-volcanic Eruption in Yellowstone National Park
By Phillip Perry. What’s more, monitors are set up all over the area to pick up any volcanic activity. So what is a super-volcano and is there any way to stop it? It all starts with the VEI. The Volcanic Explosive Index (VEI) is a scale used to measure how explosive a volcanic eruption is. It was devised in 1982 by Chris Newhall at the US Geological Survey (USGS) and Stephen Self at the University of Hawaii. With it, scientists classify current and historic eruptions . . .
The BBC recently reported a special NASA plan to counteract a supervolcano. In truth, there’s really nothing anyone can do to stop an eruption. Yet Brian Wilcox of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is developing countermeasures. NASA’s plan is to drill into the super-volcano and fill it with cold water to cool it down, much like how a radiator in a car works. The constant flow of steam would then provide a source of renewable energy with no carbon footprint.
The trouble is, cooling the lava upfront does nothing for the magma behind it. There are thousands of cubic kilometers of it to cool. Such efforts therefore would probably not be enough. Perhaps such a plan could quell the supervolcano for a short time but not forever. A devastating eruption would eventually occur.
Not to worry though. The scientists who monitor Yellowstone say it shouldn’t blow anytime in the next few thousand years. According to USGS, the odds that it’ll erupt in any given year is one in 730,000 or 0.00014%. It’s about the same risk as a large asteroid slamming into the Earth. (Read more from “How NASA Plans to Prevent a Super-volcanic Eruption in Yellowstone National Park”
What could possibly go wrong?....................
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Is Mr. Wizard available for comment?
No, he died in 2007.
I watched his shows as a kid in the 60’s..................
It will be ‘nigh’ if they poke a hole in the magma chamber!...............
I actually thought about this. Couldn’t we remove as much of the dirt on top as possible so that when it blows, the volume of dirt kicked into the atmosphere is reduced? When it does go, we will have wished global warming was real because it will get mighty cold. Winter is coming!
All I see is an empty repley. Wht did you try to put here?
He was one of the bright spots of the tube in the day..
drizzle drazzle ..
time for this one to come home.
Dr. Evil saying “Liquid Hot Magma.”
A show like that could not survive in today’s world............................
Pic-y no worky...................
“Drizzle, Drazzle, Drozzle, Drome; time for this one to come home.”
Thanks for the Memories.......................
Close enough for all practical purposes. There is simply no way you can extract heat directly from magma. Besides, magma moves around all the time. Tapping geothermal heat in volcanic zones is tantamount to “tapping a volcano.”
“Tapping geothermal heat in volcanic zones is tantamount to “tapping a volcano.”
No it is not, and repeating it leads to sheeple grasping onto the kind of numbskull ideas like those in the article.
The heat in a zone of magma and a volcano may have magma in common, but the heat alone and the volcano are not synonymous nor is the act of “tapping into” them synonymous and indistinguishable.
No energy geologist would ever make the claim they are getting geothermal energy directly “from a volcano”; because in fact it is not done.
With 99.999% certainty, nothing at all. Trivial amount of energy compared to the smallest of earthquakes. The other .001%, it triggers an earthquake - one which was gonna happen soon anyway.JMHO
Geysers, fumaroles, mud pots, pahoehoe lava, Aa lava, magma, volcanos...they are all start with hot rocks.
Sounds like an idea of MAJOR Roger Hey off an episode of “I Dream off of &Jeannie”.
“Geysers, fumaroles, mud pots, pahoehoe lava, Aa lava, magma, volcanos...they are all start with hot rocks.”
Makes no difference. That they all “start with” hot rocks, does not make them synonymous with each other in geology.
Tapping into “heat & or heated water” from “hot rocks” is not synonymous with “tapping into volcano”.
A volcano is distinct in its features and is not synonymous in ITS features with all other geologic formations derived from “hot rocks”. It may represent a formation with “hot rock” origins with those other formations but is not synonymous with them. If that were NOT the case, geologists would never discuss and identify each of those geological formations independently, but would just call everything “a volcano”.
As much as YOU think they should do that, to satisfy your error of lumping them all as indistinguishable and one and the same thing, fortunately THEY do not make that mistake.
For a geyser (or fumaroles, ect) to exist, must there be a volcano? No. For every volcano is there geysers (fumaroles, ect.) No. Does a volcano have to have water present? No. Do geysers, fumaroles, ect.? Yes. Do they all have attributes independent of each other? Yes. They are all not synonymous, not the same thing, no matter that the heat engine for all of them is what you call “hot rocks”.
But you go right on pretending they are all the same thing. Ignorance is bliss I’m sure.
Although Clear Lake volcanic field has not erupted for several millennia, sporadic volcanic-type earthquakes do occur, and the numerous hot springs and volcanic gas seeps at in the area point to its potential to erupt again. Monitoring in the Clear Lake region by the USGS and a collaborative effort with Calpine Corporation in the Geysers Steam Field, provides real-time tracking of earthquake activity. In addition, the USGS periodically analyzes volcanic gases and hot springs in the region.
Threat Potential: High
Looks like a volcano to me...
They are just baby volcanoes, so nothing to worry about.
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