NASA Unveils Plan To Stop Yellowstone "Supervolcano" Eruption, There's Just One Catch
So, NASA came up with an alternative plan. They believe the most viable solution could be to drill up to 10km down into the super volcano and pump down water at high pressure. The circulating water would return at a temperature of around 350C (662F), thus slowly day by day extracting heat from the volcano. And while such a project would come at an estimated cost of around $3.46 billion, it comes with an enticing catch which could convince politicians (taxpayers) to make the investment.
So... they're planning to pump water into a volcano, where it will turn into steam. This doesn't sound dangerous at all.
Hudson Rogers
they can get geothermal power from it, so basically gets the grid some cheap electricity (less costs for the consumer). i dont see whats wrong with it.
Brandon Ramirez
it literally says pressurized water mate so its under hard enough pressure to not turn into steam at that temperature
Henry Collins
kek
Eli Foster
thanks norway
Lucas Morgan
Where's norbro anyways? Haven't seen him
James Scott
wait, that actually sounds stupid. when they cool down the upper layer, it will harden and the pressure rises. I mean if they just want to build a vulcan heat power plant it can be done but doing in the size for "cooling it down".
>...Muahahahaha, all nations have to sign leadership over to me in the next 24 hours or this supervulcan will errupt with the help of my cute litte drill.... wew, somehow I remember this plot, I wonder where it was from?
Wyatt Lewis
But water vapor is a greenhouse gas. greenies would rather die that heat up the earth a bit more
Elijah Murphy
nasa steals 53 million a day to put out cgi cartoon blue balls to make goy believe they are on a ball spinning 1063 mph and flying 67,000,000 mph. this is why jews own goy.
Parker Hill
if NASA gets involved it probably will detonate
Chase Brooks
You know, I always wondered why geothermal hasn't been a viable solution... You drill a hole, you pump water down into it, and then steam comes up. Energy loss from pumping the water, and maybe the steam isn't high pressure enough to spin a turbine?
David Ward
His algorithm is selective. I do this for free.
Colton Bennett
literally no water vapor being created because the water is used as a heat-conductive and is always pressurized so it wont vaporize and then they let it cool off
Wyatt Flores
you can contrap the water vapor in a geothermal generator and cool it off....
Adam Ramirez
the Space Shuttle was the most clusterfucked engineering project in history. they will clusterfuck yellowstone if you let them near it
Luke Price
according to the article yellowstone has the potential to release 6GW of power
>“Yellowstone currently leaks around 6GW in heat,” Wilcox says. “Through drilling in this way, it could be used to create a geothermal plant, which generates electric power at extremely competitive prices of around $0.10/kWh. You would have to give the geothermal companies incentives to drill somewhat deeper and use hotter water than they usually would, but you would pay back your initial investment, and get electricity which can power the surrounding area for a period of potentially tens of thousands of years. And the long-term benefit is that you prevent a future supervolcano eruption which would devastate humanity.”
Christopher Adams
yellowstone is done in 300 years why are they causing mass-panic
William Edwards
how long will the global winter be if it detonates? is winter finally coming?
Gavin Turner
there might be hype around yellowstone going but i dont think it actually does in this timeline
Andrew Allen
>nasa >geological work >one random fucker 'leaks' a supposed proposal stop fucking larping you utter homosexual
Ian Walker
the moon landing was faked in hollywood
Connor Torres
Wouldn't that just cause a shit ton of steam that would circulate and expand the magma pocket, forcing the thing to erupt?
Wyatt Reed
pff dunno 10 years of a hard winter i heard...we can mass grow plants inside and shit and again yellowstone aint done
Landon Thompson
yes let it blow, i want you to die.
Ayden Wood
ITS FUCKING PRESSURIZED WATER MATE IF YOU PUT A LIQUID UNDER PRESSURE YOU CAN HIGHER ITS VAPORIZATION POINT IS THAT SO FUCKING HARD TO UNDERSTAND
Austin Sanchez
The prophecies from Lost just keep flowing. Watch this for a preview.
Ian Gomez
Wasn't it jellystone tho?
Zachary Roberts
...
Jose White
They're also out of water. Are they gonna route ocean water there? This sounds like a 5 x science jargon scam.
It's fracking but for green reasons. Plus geothermal. Plus water distillation. Plus Nasa. Wtf.
Brandon Cruz
For no compensation? Not even a hot pocket?
Jayden Ortiz
why not pump liquid nitrogen into the volcano and freeze the caldera?
Isaiah Perez
a fucking shadow isnt going to end your country burger
Isaiah Martin
Wouldn't this have a complete opposite reaction and make it fucking worse? Where exactly do they plan to let the steam escape from because, it's not like they can have a dual pipe system that will inject water and collect steam in the same location
Jeremiah Bell
too cost expensive? not practical? a liquid is should be of rather neutral heatstate to conduct heat
Grayson Parker
THERES NOT GONNA BE ANY STEAM HOW DO YOU NOT GET THAT
Levi Sanchez
while there are actual cases of the mandela effect, this is not one of them. everyone and their dog knows that shows use joke names like that to avoid copyright shit all the time.
Nolan Torres
IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN
Kayden Evans
Why don't they just use aluminum rods for better heat transfer. Waters terrible.
Jacob Lee
They could do what I did in Terraria and build a tunnel under the ocean and relocate all the water. Not sure what they'd do for the steam though.
Liam Baker
Oh. My. God.
Lucas Clark
10 years would be the longest right? the last time we got wintered it wiped a lot of people.
Lucas Flores
it's happening >the groxt1 i like him
Nathaniel Lewis
water can be pumped in there? water is cheap? pressurized water can theoretically hold heat as it gets more pressurized?
James Nelson
>$3.46 billion to drill a fucking hole fuck these niggers
Jeremiah Perry
This is what NASA looks like today
Cooper Gray
10 years would be the hardest....NA would also have shrapnel in the air basically
Cooper Parker
What's the meme about
Joseph Long
So we're alleviating the pressure by adding more pressure with superheated water?
Carson Wright
nothing its all hypocrisy its done in centuries
Sebastian Brooks
Makes sense on why their genius plan is essentially to build a pussy and douche the fuck out of it. Just a bunch of old hags thinking with their cunts.
Ryan Sanchez
dont bullshit me user. We are fucked.
Cooper Green
>NASA's bright fucking idea is to do a combination fracking/water cooling on a goddamn volcano thats half the country in size WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
Brandon Stewart
you higher the pressure and then the water has to get hotter to vaporize basically you just pressurize it adequately theres gonna be no steam because it would be cooled off and then reused because you wanna keep the pressure although i think unpressurizing it makes it cool off way faster so yeah its a good idea but then again hypocrisy yellowstone is not gonna erupt in anyones lifetime here
Caleb Morgan
some poor ayyy lmaos are going to get their planet devestated like a billion years from now haha
Isaac James
actually not that much
William Fisher
NOOO!I WANT CHAOS AND SUFFERING!
Matthew Peterson
if something happens just go to australia theres enough space there and its gonna be cooler during the eternal winter in the middle of the country so it would be the ideal place plus its so fucking far away from the eruption zone
Jonathan Perez
>Pump water into underground supervolcano >Water flashes into steam massively increasing pressure >This is supposed to help
wat
Charles Morgan
Wait.. So what your saying is they plan to send a team in a self burrowing 'sub' towards the center of the earth in hope to find a long lost civilization of mythical creatures and then trigger underground volcanoes to kill them all and then escape in the sub via one of the eruptions, returning safely to the surface? That's fucking crazy man, nasa is whack.
Cooper Rodriguez
"It will cost is billions of our fiat currency that we control and has no standard."
James Smith
read the fucking thread newfag
Jacob Gray
Bruce Willis has to be the one to do it.
Adrian Thompson
>Literal Aztec is more reasonable about a solar eclipse than my countrymen.
Fml
Jaxson Russell
that will just make cobblestone idiot
Asher Walker
>mfw this thread is full of retards and illiterates
Jose Ward
NASA wants to do this to all the supervolcanos.
Nathaniel Garcia
Woke AF
John Peterson
rip
Nathaniel Bailey
There's a nordbot who likes to archive things he percieves as giving jews shekels
Chase Russell
consierges sans salerie my friend
Henry Wood
Geochemist here stop trying to be smart it makes you look fucking idiotic.
Luis Clark
i saw him yesterday but only a few times
Michael Ramirez
There's no way they could extract enough heat to make any meaningful decrease in the risk of an eruption. Yellowstone is fucking massive.
Nicholas Adams
It's already overdue iirc. However, they also guestimate that the magma chamber is no-where near full. My personal theory is that we live on a dying planet because the Earth's core can't keep spinning forever. Sooner or later, we'll lose the magnetic field and we'll have about 1,000 years from that point to get off the planet or become extinct.
Easton Lewis
I'm sure that's gonna do wonders to the planet's climate.
Tyler Thomas
What would happen if Kim dropped a nuke in that hole?
Aiden Smith
yeah sure know what? proof or fuck off this is Sup Forums nigger btw im answering people but grew angry because they werent reading through the thread you wet biscuit moose fucker
Jacob Taylor
not gonna happen in my life for sure
Elijah Johnson
well theyre also gonna go on this shit massively
Easton Davis
We're all gonna die
Ethan Brooks
HAIL APOLLYON KING OF THE LOCUSTS
Jordan Moore
i wish i could see Sup Forums 1000 years from now
Kayden Flores
I don't have to show you shit you fucking discount kraut retard