They are actually proposing to drill down 30,000 feet to inject water to cool a minuscule eight acre patch at a cost of 3-1/2 BILLION DOLLARS?
Just when I thought I’d heard of every possible way to piss away our tax money, this takes the cake.
Let’s scale that project up to the entire Yellowstone Caldera. The entire Yellowstone Caldera is almost a million acres. The project proposed in this article costs $437 MILLION per acre.
So, at that rate, the cost to cool the entire Yellowstone Caldera would be 4.3^14 dollars.
What do you think? Should we write to our Congressmen to support this project?
Maybe we can get AOC to support it. “COOL THE CALDERA NOW!!”
” The entire Yellowstone Caldera is almost a million acres.” THAT my FRiend is a LOT of soccer fields worth of real estate. ;-) Where are the “moms against magma!” when you need them?
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.