Magma On The Move Beneath Yellowstone

Scientific American ^ | March 2, 2006 | David Biello

[commish]

We are Doomed. DOOMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ko_kyi]

Cheap clean energy with the side effect of bleeding off some of the heat below. Win-Win.

We could build geothermal energy plants for the next 200 years nonstop and not affect the geology of the magma chamber in any measurable way.

[DoctorMichael]

If it were to blow Louis Farakhan will say that Cheney and Bush were behind it and Chris Matthews will go wall-to-wall with video about Bush being warned and how its all this Administrations fault.

[rottndog]

We could build geothermal energy plants for the next 200 years nonstop and not affect the geology of the magma chamber in any measurable way.


Yeah, I know--but that's an even better reason to do this. Yellowstone alone could make hydrogen powered cars economically viable by driving down the cost of producing the hydrogen.

Too bad so many people have no concept of how much energy is there. In my Navy days in Hawaii, the locals fought tooth and nail to stop a geothermal plant on the big island. They were afraid it would alter the behavior of the volcano. And then there's that pissing off the gods thing. But oh how they bitch and whine about the high cost of energy....

[cowboyway]

bfl

WTF?

[SlowBoat407]

[Marie]

"bump for later" :-)

[ATCNavyRetiree]

[chs68]

Should the Army Corps of Engineers begin building the levees now?