And all the high pressure pumping equipment required
Think of a Fracking installation X 1000
What could go wrong:
Posted on 09/18/2017 6:12:23 AM PDT by SandRat
They would be so bogged down by diversity programs and political correctness that they couldn’t get a thing done......................
LOL. Post of the week!
Uh.....No!
Not on this planet.
“Brian Wilcox of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology told the BBC an attempt to drill from the top of the magma chamber could accidentally cause the very thing the drilling was designed to prevent. To avoid that risk, he suggested drilling from outside the borders of Yellowstone and coming into the super-volcano from the lower side.”
Dangerous fools on a fools errand masquerading as “scientists”.
Scientists who do not acknowledge how short is there total knowledge of a situation, lack the credibility to be acknowledged as scientists.
Tapping into the magma can release some of the pressure and possibly avoid a large eruption. Assuming that the engineers know what they’re doing and know what’s happening in the volcano. Or it could trigger a large eruption, which would have happened anyway at some time.
Nothing to do with “supernatural significance”! That’s stupidity!
No, the f*cking end is not f*cking “nigh”!!
(What the f*ck does nigh mean?)
Mother nature keeps balancing the earth. Pleeeeeeze...you damn scientists.....stop pretending you’re smarter than God.
Let’s see...
-pump water into volcano,
-water cools magma in small chambers,
-cooled magma blocks path to small chambers,
-magma can’t go into small chambers; goes into large chambers, and makes larger chambers and makes larger chambers
-magma gotta go somewhere, but:
I don’t know,
I don’t know where I’m a gonna go
when the volcano blow.
But I don’t want to land in no New York City,
I don’t want to land in no Mexico.
I don’t want to land on no Kim Jong-un bomb;
I don’t want to see my skin a-glow.
Attmepting to cool it is abject idiocy. It will just build up pressure and become more catastrophic since you can’t get at the source you’ll only create a ‘crust’.
Pressure needs to be redirected/vented
Just like a Water heater... safety relief valve.
They’ll end up creating a “plug” of sorts and it’ll blow all the more sky high when it finally does.
I don’t have all the math data on hand, but I’m pretty sure even converting the entire world’s 150 petawatt/yr energy supply to Yellowstone geothermal to dissipate cooling attempts would hardly put a dent in the supervolcano’s progression.
And that assume no loss of steam in the process. Superheated H2O leakage would wreak global-warming havoc. (That’s not “deniable” - it WOULD cause massive global warming thru actual greenhouse gasses.)
LOL!!
Somehow, I find myself wanting to try this at home. :)
And all the high pressure pumping equipment required
Think of a Fracking installation X 1000
What could go wrong:
Nicht moeglich.
Just reverse-engineering the effects of volcanic eruptions would show this to be a fool’s errand. Part of the effect of a volcanic eruption is the huge amounts of superheated steam that is released, and adding even MORE water to be converted to superheated steam, would only exacerbate the original problem.
Some “problems” are simply beyond even the scope of the most advanced engineering techniques that may be brought into use.
Perhaps, it would be possible to drill many thousands of deep pits to the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, a layer between the earth’s mantle and the molten interior of the planet. But that, in addition to being more expensive than any project ever undertaken by mankind, may prove to be totally self-defeating, as it would open a vast number of new fissures in the earth’s crust, and allow the escape of a huge amount of vapor and noxious material.
Not something anyone would attempt if the outcome were thought through.
AstoNaught Tony Nelson, disagrees with you and Col (DR) Bellows says MAJ Nelson is mentally sound. hehehehe
Sounds like an opportunity for the ultimate “hold my beer and watch this” moment.
Wonder what a J-DAM dropped on the middle of the magma chamber would do?
(Since we’re all speculating here, let’s make it interesting.)
;^)
“Brian Wilcox of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology told the BBC an attempt to drill from the top of the magma chamber could accidentally cause the very thing the drilling was designed to prevent. To avoid that risk, he suggested drilling from outside the borders of Yellowstone and coming into the super-volcano from the lower side.”
Could we start the drilling from North Korea?
Major Tony Nelson is doing it to me again! Oh Jeeze,....
They HAVE NOT been "tapping a volcano". A geyser and similar formations are not volcanoes; whether or not the heat those geological features have is derived from heat that originates from underground magma.
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