Stopping the Yellow Stone Super Volcano

>>9141475
I don't think it's stored in a depository, but is part of a vast underground network which can flood new lava into the system. More research needed, but I think

>"For the first time, we have imaged the continuous volcanic plumbing system under Yellowstone," first author Hsin-Hua Huang, also a postdoctoral researcher in geology and geophysics, is quoted by a University of Utah statement as saying. "That includes the upper crustal magma chamber we have seen previously plus a lower crustal magma reservoir that has never been imaged before and that connects the upper chamber to the Yellowstone hotspot plume below."

>"But now a second, much larger reservoir of partially molten rock has been discovered by researchers at the University of Utah. There's enough magma inside, they say, to fill the Grand Canyon more than 11 times."

"Contrary to popular perception, the magma chamber and magma reservoir are not full of molten rock. Instead, the rock is hot, mostly solid and sponge-like, with pockets of molten rock within it. Huang says the new study indicates the upper magma chamber averages about 9 percent molten rock — consistent with earlier estimates of 5 percent to 15 percent melt — and the lower magma reservoir is about 2 percent melt.
"So there is about one-quarter of a Grand Canyon worth of molten rock within the much larger volumes of either the magma chamber or the magma reservoir, [postdoctoral researcher and co-author Jamie] Farrell says."

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/04/24/402032765/scientists-discover-massive-new-magma-chamber-under-yellowstone

Ho

>>9141505
So you'd have to siphon rock also, which I'm sure's not going to happen. Maybe try a crane system and make a HUGE mountain out of the extracted material. Holy shit that would be epic

>Turn yellowstone into a giant geothermal energy source
>Pump down water and extract steam through a turbine until it cools down

>>9141530
Where the hell are you going to get that much water

>>9141532
It's pretty close to the ocean, right?

>>9141552
It's well over 600 miles, and more importantly, over 8000 feet above sea level.

>>9141566
What about a giant funnel to collect rain

>>9141530
Best idea I've read so far

>>9141566

well if you can't move the sea to the volcano why not move the volcano to the sea?

>>9141475
When this volcano ejaculates will i be safe in Urawp?

>>9142421
No one is safe

Underground nuclear fracking.

Find the stress points and relieve them early.

>>9142421
Nope. Mass extinction event.

>>9141475
The big gun.

The answer is simple.
Tunnel from the ocean to the super volcano core.
Aim it at Japan/North Korea
Then finish them off.

>>9141475
For those who saw the original thread,
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/rockyplanet/2017/08/31/2250904/#.WaohRJVK3IU

>>9142557
lies, you Americans just made this up so we help you with your little volcano

>>9142421
When that super volcano blows, the whole world is fucked

>>9141475

There's a lot of lava anon. A lot.

No
There is a huge pressure in the volcano that keeps the CO2 dissolved in the magma. Once you would release the pressure, the CO2 would be released too. This would open more cracks in the ground and cause a runaway reaction leading to an explosion. Besides that, the magma is too viscous to flow in a rod smoothly.

>>9141532
Don't. Just use a closed cycle with a condenser.

>>9143485
It wasn't the last three times, or the unknown number of other times there were lesser eruptions.

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>>9142418
I think that's already happening.

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Why don't we literally just nuke yellowstone? If it can beat Japan it can beat a volcano.

>>9144343
It depends on your definition of "fucked." Some populations of people will survive, but civilization will be over.

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>>9141475
pretty sure that's the opposite of what you want...

>>9144373
your America isn't the human civilization

>>9144369
Lol

It will happen long after we're all dead so why do you care?
>giving a shit about people hundreds of years from now

>>9142409
Ingenious!

Why not just spill water on it and collect obsidian?