Posted on 04/13/2011 10:05:17 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Oh my god! We better get a federal program started that will save us. Raise taxes immediately! Raise the federal gas tax! Increase all tax rates, especially on the rich! Save us Obama!
Democrats, don't let the evil Tea Party set this volcano off through their insane demands for tax relief!
This is not a problem. It is an opportunity.
The pool at 400 miles in diameter or thereabouts? I thing we need about 125,660 geothermal tap energy generating well bores placed immediatly one mile on-center NS/EW. Solve the energy needs of the continent and cool this thing down.
I think the transmission grid to get to three power distribution nodes on the west, east and souther boundries would only require about 10,000,000 miles of high KVa overhead lines.
Anyone want to take a stab at how many calories of heat we would have to pull out to cool the pool enough to cap the plume indefinetly?
That takes out nearly all the ‘breadbasket’ of the USA.
****Let’s drill a deep hole to let the pressure off...............;^)*****
That should cure tinnitus;)
Isn’t it a corollary to Murphy’s Law that everything is always worse than you ever imagined? :-)
You have stated Mrs. Murphy’s Law. She had to live with the idiot who was always screwing up things.
Whenever this thing goes again, and it will.. not an if, just a when.. it will be a very very very bad day.
The explosive energy that this thing will release I don’t even want to think about... its not simply pressure built up from the magma, but the instant flash release of chemicals currently forced into the lava with noplace to go... when the earth cracks and air reaches the lava, these chemicals and gasses finally will have an escape outlet and will release so much energy that I don’t human kind can remotely comprehend it.
Many years ago, my Uncle, a geologist, was involved in experimental geothermal drilling around the edges of the park. Early use
age of horizontal drilling. I don’t think much came of it.
The big cities across the continent will be wastelands. When Yellowstone goes, the earth quaking will level buildings with rippling 9+ earthquakes. The inability to get traffic in or out of those debris fields will terminate tens of millions in the first two weeks and for the next month survivors will be the feral bands of food and fuel raiders. If you cannot get more than 100 miles from any big city, you will be fighting off mauraders constantly. B L O A T
DC already blows.
This is a really cool study of Yellowstone and what underlies it. Thanks for posting.
If this was true, all the potatos (or is that potatoes) in Idaho would already be baked. Idaho could change its motto to “Bring Some Butter And Sour Cream!”
Back to the Stone Age....Ugly!
I believe the first Yellowstone eruption was a little larger than Toba.
“It [the plume] is very conductive compared with the rock around it,” Zhdanov says. “It’s close to seawater in conductivity.”
Houston, we have a problem.
That indicates water. When that thing goes, KYAG.
“Bless you son, and good luck!! :D “
Choke. Choke. Cough. LOL.
And all this just when I was hoping to move to Idaho!
Sigh...
So all that will be left will be cockroach’s and democrat’s
Well, somebody blamed St Helens erupting on my coffee.
Solution is to just keep my coffee away from Yellowstone?
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