[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[Red Badger]

2012.....................

[sodpoodle]

The Government needs to prohibit smoking in that place!

[Twotone]

Yellowstone is a seriously scary place, but I'd love to go back...

[al baby]

E at the B I gotta tell ya that stuff fascinates me to no end thanks for posting

[SierraWasp]

Time to fuel up and fire up the old RV and set the GPS to your street address, Ernest!!! (grin) You got good hook-ups right next to your house??? (smirk)

[Noob1999]

......................The hotspot finally reached Yellowstone about 2 million years ago, yielding three huge caldera eruptions about 2 million, 1.3 million and 642,000 years ago........................

So it erupts about every 650,000 years!

Sounds like we’re about due for another one.

[Hatteras]

"The hotspot finally reached Yellowstone about 2 million years ago, yielding three huge caldera eruptions about 2 million, 1.3 million and 642,000 years ago."

So, we have what? 40,000 +/- years?

[Cicero]

If Yellowstone blows, we’re all cooked. Literally.

Fortunately, it only blows about once every 600,000 years.

Unfortunately, our country has been increasingly asking for something like this to happen.

Pray that it doesn’t.

[bopdowah]

We should be building power plants to take advantage of all the free heat below the surface.

[Darksheare]

It is NOT my fault.

[Darren McCarty]

We're due. The bad news if we're up s**t creek if it goes. The good news is that if humanity can survive Lake Toba (worst eruption in 25 million years), it can likely survive Yellowstone. The last Yellowstone eruption was estimated at 1/2 of Toba.

Although if it looks like it's going to blow, I better have lots of warm clothes, ammo, hunting knives, nonperishable foods, greenhouse materials, seeds, gasoline/generators, tools, fire materials, and lots of distance between me and the big city.

[Moonman62]

Why don’t we find some way to drain off the energy and use it?

[Gaffer]

Can we move it to LA, SF or Seattle? [Washington DC is just too much to hope for at this point]

[Buckeye McFrog]

why couldn’t it be under Washington, DC?

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

[NVDave]

Oughta take about ten minutes to get from Yellowstone to our back door. If it pops off, don’t bother asking where we went - we’ll be fly ash and air pollution.

[redgolum]

Great. I am just outside the previous ash fall estimate. This would place me just inside. Not that it would matter much.

[StormEye]

"Yellowstone's supervolcano - wore than we thought"

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!

[KC Burke]

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?