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New from Kite & Key: How to Stop a Supervolcano
I have to watch yet, but is it lasers?
Admit it Troy, you came up with the “flaming death hole”. Another great video.
News you can use. Drilling to the magma now.
Just another science policy trap.
Just in case global warming isnt scary enough lets direct billions of dollars into research, engineering and construction – into useless projects. They’ll give this a spin.
I like this idea, but I would want to try it out on a smaller scale at first.
Wrote it, picked the image, and insisted on the crunchy guitar underneath. Yes, a Senik special.
I don’t object to the general idea of investing in research to defend humanity against extremely rare, extremely daunting threats like asteroids and super-volcanoes. But leave that investment to billionaires like Gates and Bezos. With success so unlikely and limited to theory, it’s a botttomless pit that taxpayers shouldn’t indulge… even on that mythical day that the US government maintains a budget again.
It’s a fun distraction, I suppose, from the trillions in debt added just in the past 2 years.
That was fascinating. I remember the volcanic ash from the big volcano in Iceland screwing up all the flights in Europe a few years back. Now Iceland is heating up again. Sometimes I look at the RSOE site – they track world events in real time including volcanos. The earth is definitely doing some strange things lately. There was a loud boom and shaking in Massachusetts but they said there was no earthquake – not sure what that was – maybe all hell breaking loose? The devil making more room?
Event list – Emergency and Disaster Information Service (rsoe-edis.org)
April 2nd Mysterious Shaking Booms in Southeastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. – Earthfiles
That was the biggest suspension of air travel since World War II. It’s mentioned, along with a bunch of other interesting facts that aren’t in the video, in our bonus content tab here.
How do you do this in small scale? You still have to drill the same distance.
What kind of budget would this have? 4 – 6 Billion +?
How could they get a return on their investment? Save the continent and then ask people to send them donations out of thanks?
They get a return by developing technologies that have other applications. For example Elon Musk could develop asteroid interception technologies as a step to asteroid mining – or applying that research to Mars landing program.
This scared my wife.
I hope you’re happy, Mr. Senik.
Proof of concept project. Drill holes next to one of the active burblers. See if it’s even feasible.
Do the proof of concept to see if it can work in a practical, real-world example. Then do a pre-scale with a larger number of holes, capacity to cool it down over time. It would take years to develop something even small.
But that’s how you evaluate the results, and see if it’ll fly at the next level. The learning that would occur in the failures of the POC and the pre-scale would probably help justify costs, purely from a seismic and architectural lens.
The same way they supposedly get a return on their “climate change” boondoggles: Earth survives.
Of course, countering super-volcanoes, as much as its fictional counterparts like anthropogenic climate catastrophes, is really just an excuse for graft.
Its not like we’re going to open Yellowstone for deep drilling.
I think the roof of the Magma chamber is between 5 – 17 KM underground, I think we’d want to have a very good understanding of exactly where it is before we drill anywhere near it… The record for deepest well is the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Siberia, and is 12Km deep. (Isnt the way – that all boreholes think they’re superdeep?) it only took 36 days to drill the Borehole.
Mrs. Senik from the other room: “Finally it’s someone else’s wife”
Ah yes, 2010 – good times. I flew from the States to London for a conference on Iceland Air. Thanks to Eyjafjallajökull, I enjoyed an extra week in London reminiscing with friends, drinking pints of delicious beer, saw Ginger Spice (but didn’t bother her), and visited Highgate Cemetery, where I had a few choice words for Karl Marx and his ostentatious tomb.
Each day I’d get up, check the Iceland Air website, see that flights back to the USA were cancelled, and go have fun. The more volcanic eruptions the better, I say.
I note in passing that Antifa rioters are cooler than magma and could be used to cool the flow if applied in large enough numbers.
Jewish space lasers, mind you . . .