Posted on 04/06/2019 9:10:36 AM PDT by rktman
Sounds like the idiots that made the Centralia, PA coal fire worse...not to mention the idiots who started it to begin with.
Or, #MORONSagainstmagma. :-)
Is it heat or chemistry there? If I recall correctly many of Yellowstone’s thermal springs contain significant sulfuric acid. Not good for trees.
I think this idea is better than pumping water down: allowing for piping off the water so pressure doesn’t build up once it’s in place pour / build a hundreds of feet thick cap of overlapping and interlocked reinforced concrete boxes with lots and lots of rebar (the way the Germans built air raid shelters) over the whole caldera area plus some generous buffer around it, using the mountains for the boundaries.
When I visited Yellowstone they informed us nothing could be moved or desturbed in any way. If a tree fell it had to remain there.
So how could anyone be allowed to bring in a drilling rig and punch a hole?
That was a Russian drilling crew.
A American roughneck crew with the right driller could run a trip in 12 hours.
/s
As Mike Rowe once asked: "Where's the fire?"
If this thing goes off, there’ll be some real climate change. And there’s still not a damn thing anyone can do about it regardless of the amount of tax dollars they suck off of people.
“Nasa believes drilling up to six miles (10km) down into the supervolcano beneath Yellowstone National Park to pump in water at high pressure could cool it.”
whats really wrong with waiting a few thousand years and letting future scientists poke the bear?
is anyone besides me bothered by this idea? The magma chamber is under pressure and bulging upwards....giving a way for magma to escape the pressure and reach the surface is not that good an idea.
whats really wrong with waiting a few thousand years and letting future scientists poke the bear?
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By all means. Lets add even more pressure with steam!
I don’t know which would be worse.
1. “scientists” really are so stupid as to believe that this idiocy would work.
2. “journalists” made up the claim, in which case, “scientists” are liable to read it and say “hey! that would probably work!”
on to vegas for hookers and blow, or just keep filling up my 401k ?
Correct on the secondary systems, though leakage between the primary and secondary might be more significant in these than manmade systems.
Yay! New Hot Springs Spa in Yellowstone! I don’t have to go to Toad Suck, Arkansas to get my fix, anymore! ;)
Perhaps MeganC can help you out. :-)
If flooding with water could stop upwhelling magma, if I may, then there would be no volcanic islands, and we’d only need 49 stars on our flag. We might hasten whatever is taking place under Yellowstone, but we’re not going to stop it with our current technology.
Watch AOC introduce a Bill to ban supervolcanos.
Looks like a zit in a beard
Reminds me of a 1960’s Sci-fi movie, “Crack In the World”, with Dana Andrews.
Dr. Stephen Sorenson plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth’s interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the earth. Despite dire warnings by fellow scientist Ted Rampion, Dr. Sorenson proceeds with the experiment after secretly learning that he is terminally ill. This experiment causes a crack to form and grow within the Earth’s crust, which threatens to split the Earth in two if it is not stopped in time.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059065/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
NASA looking at old Sci-fi movies for ideas now?LOL
2. Glad to know that the 8 acres is the size of 4 soccer fields. .....
Don’t know the size of soccer fields...
However, an acre is 43,560 Sq FEET. My property that is 5.58 acres.
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