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Also if you apply hydraulic equations to the lave through such a small diameter borehole, you quickly find that you would NOT be in control of anything and you'

Also if you apply hydraulic equations to the lave through such a small diameter borehole, you quickly find that you would NOT be in control of anything and you'd probably do more to trigger a large eruption - the velocity of lava out of such a borehole would be hypersonic at least and quickly open the borehole to form a new vent equal to an actual eruption.

dmos62 5y ago
Hypersonic lava sounds AWESOME!
- ethbr0 5y ago
  Not a Dwarf Fortress player, are we?
- beerandt 5y ago
  Lookup pyroclastic flow.
trenning 5y ago
This could be used as an assist to space maybe :) sustainable Earth based lava launches
- dmos62 5y ago
  I always felt that space colonization was a semi-conscious way of giving up on sustainability on Earth. Purposefully erupting supervolcanoes to launch spaceships would be the ultimate illustration of that.
- ineedasername 5y ago
  I'm not sure if that would be better or worse than Project Orion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
chasd00 5y ago
Well if it came out above the escape velocity maybe it would just shoot off into space ;)