Yellowstone Lake Hints at Buildup to Hugh Blast.

Denver Post ^ | August. 10th, 2003 | Diedtra Henderson, Science writer

[null and void]

It would be quite a show while it you lasted...

[cmsgop]

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[tortoise]

It probably needs to rise to close to 300 degrees to start to boil at 65 feet deep due to the pressure...

Some of the geothermal power plants in northern Nevada are tapping huge resevoirs with temperatures well in excess of 300 degrees from wells drilled only a few hundred feet deep. Pretty amazing that it can get so hot so close to the surface, and gives you an idea of just how close the heat source actually is.

[Consort]

...give or take 100°.

[meyer]

If the temperature increases another 25°, the lake will start to boil.

Just curious - how hot was the coffee in the McDonalds lawsuit? Can I sue somebody?

[Lazamataz]

Man, will I be glad when the 'hugh', 'series', and 'vey' stuff is finally considered passe.

[ErnBatavia]

There'll always be some maroon that didn't get the memo...

[meyer]

Pretty amazing that it can get so hot so close to the surface, and gives you an idea of just how close the heat source actually is.

And yet, they blame man for global warming.

[null and void]

I don't want to be around when that bulge spews...

[Orlando]

Any new update on the water temp ?

[KevinDavis]

Luckily I live in Illinois....

[gitmo]

Reported here.

[TBall]

"Time to 'drill' and lance this boil?" Or maybe we could drain the lake of water and fill it in with cement. The cement would be heavier than the water and could be a counter to the increasing force below. If nothing else, it would create in a lot of jobs.

[Old Professer]

This was about the only graph I could come up with; since the effect of pressure on the boiling point of water reaches to about 367 degrees C if this curve is stable to two ATM it would intersect the T line at roughly 127 degrees C and a depth of 65 feet would allow the water to be just at boiling, I think.

[null and void]

ummmm 65 ft of water column is a bit over 2 atm. You need to add the local air pressure to this, a bit less than 1 atm, given the altitude. Call it 3 atm total ~ 45 psia. About 275°F/135°C (source-Steam tables in the CRC Handbook of Physics and Chemistry).

The rilly kewl thing would be as the water starts to boil it will rise into the colder water over the bulge, and the bubbles will abruptly condense out.

Like in a pot on your stove, the collapsing bubbles will make a growling noise.

Only much, much louder...

[Old Professer]

I was thinking in terms of gauge pressure.

[Calvin Locke]

...is driving me mad.

And they wonder why "Johnny can't read or write."

[Orlando]

I can't find any new update on the lake temp...

This is nuts ! They have all other kind of inform and bs
, but no real-time reading of the lake, which is our true early warning system, if you think about it.

Here's the closes I got :


http://www.mines.utah.edu/~rbsmith/RESEARCH/UUGPS.html


Let's email Bob Smith (at bottom of page) and suggest
to all these phD's types to go to Wal-mart and buy a temp
reading device (in the cooking section) go to the lake
get some fishing line..AAH forget it ! :)
Here's the staff...email address


http://www.mines.utah.edu/geo/people/facultylist.html

Let's email them, and let them know, we want updates...
demand it !! It's a matter of life or sudden death without
any warning at all...think about your kids....

vet out...

[TBall]

Bump

[Axenolith]

Yellowstone is over a "hot spot" mantle plume while all of the west coast volcanoes are from fractional melting of subducting oceanic crust... Different systems.