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From the article >In 2014 the U.S. Geological Survey modeled the likely ash distribution from a Yellowstone super-eruption. They found that the ash radius woul
by hourislate 5y ago
From the article
>In 2014 the U.S. Geological Survey modeled the likely ash distribution from a Yellowstone super-eruption. They found that the ash radius would reach New York, with as much as 3½ inches of ash falling as far east as Lincoln, Neb. Cropland across the U.S. and Canada would be destroyed, and the release into the atmosphere of sulfate aerosols would create a global “volcanic winter” lasting generations.
>Fortunately, the JPL also points to a potential solution—horizontal drilling for geothermal energy extraction—that would siphon off excess energy, producing enough electricity to power as many as 20 million homes for a few thousand years at only 10 cents a kilowatt-hour. That’s less than Texans paid for electricity in 2019. Considering that the energy in the Yellowstone caldera is carbon-free, you have to wonder why we aren’t already doing it.
So to save the park, the US Government is willing to destroy the entire country/continent.
Clown world.....
- Accujack 5y agoUh.... drilling horizontally into the caldera isn't going to set off an eruption. Doing that is actually beyond human technology.
- mlyle 5y ago> Uh.... drilling horizontally into the caldera isn't going to set off an eruption. No one said drilling horizontally was going to set off an eruption. Indeed, they said the opposite: it could relieve pressure and prevent an eruption. > Doing that is actually beyond human technology. Many people -- indeed, here, NASA/JPL/Caltech and the article author-- think it's reasonably possible to extract a lot of energy from Yellowstone without much ecological impact, and perhaps to an extent that would delay the inevitable eruption.