Yellowstone Supervolcano "Even More Colossal" Than Thought

BBC ^ | 12-10-2013 | Rebecca Morelle

[Revel]

What you really should be thinking about is what happens when all those nuclear power plant reactors and their spent fuel pools all go bang from lack of cooling. Really think about it now and tell me that they will be able to maintain cooling on dozens of these things with power out and transportation impossible. And everything buried in Ash. Look what happened to world from just one power plant in Japan. In this case there will be dozens. And it will be even far more impossible to deal with.

[JohnBovenmyer]

**** by multiculturalism, *** by multiculturalism.

I suppose Pele might not be requesting the most important Hawaiian, but rather a virgin Hawaiian. In that case, feed Pele the Hawaiian with the virgin birth certificate.

[Mike Darancette]

contains 200-600 cubic km of molten rock

The NY post said it is between 125 and 185 billion cubic miles of molten rock.

[Rodamala]

What a gneiss guy.

[Rodamala]

Make steam, run steam turbines, generate electricity. WIN.

[null and void]

I have known loess in my heart.

[Moonman62]

Adam and Eve were created as fully formed adults, not babies.

Yet Jesus was.

Not saying creation was exactly 6000 years ago, but God is not limited by our puny speculation

It's hardly speculation. God obviously wants us to figure out his creation. I don't think he created the effects of crustal plates moving over hot spots to deceive us. The same goes for the magnetic striping of ocean floors.

[Enchante]

wow, we really need Obama’s “Affordable Care Act” in case this Yellowstone thingy blows up!!

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

Excellent graphic, ETL! Where did that come from? Thanks!

[HarleyD]

What’s interesting is Yellowstone Lake is rising. While out on a visit there a couple years ago they pointed out how once submerged boats are now on dried lands. This is caused by a growing volcanic gas pocket underneath the lake pushing the lake upwards. To get the full effect of what this super-volcano would do, one just has to look at a map of the US and see how it changed the geographic landscape west of the Mississippi.

[BwanaNdege]

I follow this fairly closely since it will be my rear end if it goes off, and the September swarm definitely got my attention.

I worked a project in Brigham City, UT a few years ago, and, like you, kept track of those swarms. If Yellowstone goes Big Time, you'll be the first to know (and go), but the rest of us (as far as the "go" part) won't be too many days/weeks/months behind.

[American Constitutionalist]

It does say in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth and the earth was without form and void and darkness was on the face of the deep.
Without form and void ? what would that mean then ?
A big blob on goo in the middle of our solar system ?
Besides ? one day to God is as like a 1000 years.
It could have took God 6 days but to us ? it could have been 6,000 years to do what he did in those first chapters of Geneses.
Then he could have set in place our current element of time as we know it.
So the Earth could be 12,000 years old.
Besides ? before there was light the earth could have been a blob of volcanic heated rock in the middle of our solar system.

[Jimmy Valentine]

This sounds like a great heat/power source like in Iceland. They could probably supply power to most of the west very cheaply at the same time reducing the risk of a Mt St Helen’s type of event

[ETL]

You’re welcome.

It came from here:
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/yellowstone_geo_hist_52.html

[Georgia Girl 2]

Well cheer up its about 60,000 years til its due to blow up again. I plan to be playing a harp way before that. :-)

[wastedyears]

How do you safely get thermal power from a volcano?

[JoeProBono]

[wastedyears]

Thank you for that.