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So there was recent non-scare about Yellowstone blowing up, and it got me thinking; is there literally nothing proactive to be done about supervolcanoes like this?
In finding this image I found an article about a theoretical plan to drill a hole into a caldera, pour water down it to cool it off and using the steam for geothermal energy production, but they admitted that the technology isn't quite there yet; particularly for actually drilling the hole, which would need to be like five miles deep apparently.
Still, a plan like this seems somewhat promising; if the point is that pressure builds up in these areas until it explodes outwards, couldn't you avoid the problem by released the pressure in some other, safer way? Sort of like lancing an abscess to drain the pus, could we not lance supervolcanoes to release the magma in smaller, more controlled ways, allowing us to avoid the huge catastrophic explosions?
I really don't know anything about geology so I don't even know where to start on this.
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>>9167077
Volcanoes erupt because of pressure, not heat.
If you cool down the surface, you are just creating a more impressive boom.
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>>9167082
Okay, but then doesn't it follow that you could find other ways to release the pressure that don't involve a giant explosion?
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Man doing anything to change this natural phenomenon is what will fuck up.
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>>9167077
I just want it to blow so my miserable existence comes to an end
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>>9167105
Some nuclear strategist guy for works for an NGO and browses /k/ once told me that a direct nuclear strike on Yellowstone wouldn't be enough to set it off. If a nuke can't do it, then that speaks volumes about how far down the puss of this pimple lies, and how difficult it would be to release the pressure. There's a lot of hot shit down there. Any hole you drill down there is going to turn into the mother of all urinary tract infections. It's gonna burn, if know what i mean.
We can't even "release the pressure safely" for regular volcanos. Yellowstone is simply beyond our ability to control at this point in time.
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Am i the only one that worries that Kim Jong-un is planning on nuking Yellowstone while he lays in a bunker far underground
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