3 ms·
This was linked from the article. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148122012290 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148
by sp332 4y ago
This was linked from the article. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148122012290 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096014812... Along with the JPL's proposal which gets into the crust dynamics. https://scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/documents/DefendingCivilizationFromSupervolcanos20151015.pdf https://scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov/sites/default/file...
- bell-cot 4y agoA critical paragraph in the second one... > Yellowstone has erupted 3 times in the past approx. 2.1 million years, with total ejected ash approaching 10^15 kg. While the heat energy associated with this ash is some 10^23 J, this averages to only approx. 1.5 GW continuous magmatic thermal power input to the volcano over the span of these eruptions, and is well within the capacity of humans to safely introduce heat into the environment – a typical electrical power plant commonly rejects more heat than this. However, this assumes that heat is provided to the magmatic system in a steady state manner, which is almost certainly not valid, although the degree to which it is invalid is unknown. ...which, by my lights, sounds far too much like specifying "able to withstand the local average wind speed" in the building code for Hurricane City, Florida.