Yellowstone Volcano

[Anonymous No.8291632]

Is it possible to depressurise yellowstone before it erupts violently?

Is it possible for a dormant volcano to be depressurised?

[Anonymous No.8291647]

>>8291632
>depressurizing a volcano safely
I doubt it can be done. It would be like trying to slowly burn a stick of dynamite. But even if you could do it, there are still problems.

Let's say that a normal eruption would release a gorilla-joule of energy over the course of a second. Perhaps you can slow the energy release so it happens over the course of a decade instead. However, you still have a gorilla-joule of energy released into the atmosphere, just much slower.

>volcano asplodes and causes a nuclear winter that lasts for an indeterminate amount of time
>volcano slow-burns and causes planet-wide warming over the course of a century
pick one

plus, drilling your heatsink apparatus might just cause the volcano to erupt prematurely

[Anonymous No.8291665]

all you can do is drain the lakes

[Anonymous No.8291672]

>>8291647
Why not harness this gorilla-joule of volcanic pressure as a green energy a-la hydro power? We can use the magma/lava as heat and invent some kind of machine to harvest the immense pressure. We don't even need batteries to store the excess, just have like a spigot or something to allow more or less pressure and heat into the generator depending on our need.

[Anonymous No.8291681]

>>8291665
looks like a huge pimple.

Remember kids, eat your veggies and/or go to the dermatologist

[Anonymous No.8291688]

>>8291672
if you think it can be done, invent that shit and collect your nobel prize

but I think it's likely you'll just spend 400 billion dollars installing your volcano engine and wind up cooking all your engineers to death, burning up your equipment, triggering a super-eruption and ending life on earth as we know it

[Anonymous No.8291698]

>>8291688
>it's likely you'll just spend 400 billion dollars installing your volcano engine and wind up cooking all your engineers to death, burning up your equipment, triggering a super-eruption and ending life on earth as we know it
Sounds metal as fuck, you should do it OP

[Anonymous No.8291703]

>>8291688
The trick is to transfer energy without direct contact with the magma. With such abundant energy you don't need to care about efficiency, especially if you are primarily concerned with mitigating a massive eruption.

To harness the massive amount of pressure, create like a super long magma jet that passes through some kind of cooling system that cools it down enough to contact a spinning thing.

[Anonymous No.8291704]

>ending life on earth
Unlikely. Maybe in America, but who cares about that?

[Anonymous No.8291708]

>>8291704

Not me, americans have sharted for the last time

[Anonymous No.8291724]

>>8291672
This is probably 100% doable, but the gubment wouldn't like the idea. They'll doom and gloom it into the shitter.

The libtards will go on about the 300x300 mile retarded solar panel idea and the conservafags will go on about how we should just focus on natural gas (it has natural in it's name, that means it's good!).

[Anonymous No.8291757]

>>8291724
fucking gubment

[Anonymous No.8291759]

>>8291724

Trump would build it and get the volcano to pay for it

[Anonymous No.8291770]

>>8291759
my flanks

[Anonymous No.8291849]

>>8291647
Slow is good.
Life can adapt.
But one slap of megavolcano is like ripping off a bandaid...
never good

I personally like the heat sink idea...
Lets roll along that line.

[Anonymous No.8291851]

>>8291632
I have a retarded idea.
What happens if we nuke it when it erupts?

[Anonymous No.8291856]

>>8291632
I live approximately 10 km away from this behemoth...is it really that big?
How f***ed am I?

[Anonymous No.8291861]

>>8291856
You're one of the least fucked ones. You'll die immediately.

[Anonymous No.8291862]

>>8291851
Nothing because the force of that eruption is higher than every nuke combined.

[Anonymous No.8291869]

>>8291632
Wait...
Hang on a tic...
Those hydrothermal vents are connected to the magma right?
What if we...what if we made the water more conductive? Could we alter the molecules to conduct more heat and generate electricity at the same time?
What if we used the same energy to refrigerate and used the excess heat to refine material in a factory?

[Anonymous No.8291873]

Okay, here goes: we start a horizontal shaft right in the side of the pacific continental shelf drop off. We DigDoug all the way across the fucking continent, just like we're building a new subway tunnel. When we make it to Yellowstone, what we've got is a giant underwater gun barrel pointed right at Japan. We pop the lava-pimple, it explodes sideways, crosses the ocean as a six mile high tidal wave with a magma chaser, finishes what Hiroshima started and wipes the pedophile cartoons out of existence forever.

[Anonymous No.8291878]

>>8291869
Use the same energy generated to refrigerate....beam the energy to the moon.
Use it to make hydrogen...
Shit OP this catastrophy could be greatest ally!

[Anonymous No.8291885]

>>8291873
MY SIDES
HOLY SHIT

AHAHHAHA

ABSOLUTELY
FUCKING
SAVAGE

[Anonymous No.8291888]

>>8291873
/thread/

[Anonymous No.8291890]

>>8291873
Today.../sci scarred me the most.
I laughed like I have never lived.
And now I am a ghost.

[Anonymous No.8291892]

>>8291873

21st pbp

[Anonymous No.8291896]

>>8291873
Japan Status:

TYRANNASAURUS RECKT x

[Anonymous No.8291898]

>>8291873
>mfw spend millions of tax dollars to fund mega gun.

>Tfw we were a gundam disguised as a country all along.

>get reckt weaboos

[Anonymous No.8291899]

http://theconversation.com/drilling-surprise-opens-door-to-volcano-powered-electricity-22515

[Anonymous No.8291900]

>>8291873
nice

[Anonymous No.8291903]

>>8291873

MAXIMUM OV3RKEK

We need to fund this...now.

Have you considered a carreer in super villainy?

[Anonymous No.8291906]

>>8291873
/thread

[Anonymous No.8291908]

>>8291903
I'm an engineering student, so... I'd say that's within my reach.

[Anonymous No.8291914]

>>8291873
/sci/entist stands before the UN.
Yells out: "Conserve this energy assholes"
Fires Volcano Gun
WW3 breaks out
>4chan does it again-

[Anonymous No.8291920]

There is no need to worry about the yellowstone volcano. The erruptions are related to large amounts of volcanic activity in the entire area, like the lava outflows that formed the Columbia river basalt.

Maybe if we started seeing some more basalt coming up and we see a lot more activity along the basin and range area, then in a few tens or hundreds of thousands of years it might erupt. There is literally no danger of it erupting any time soon.

[Anonymous No.8291922]

>>8291873
Two birds with one stone.

[Anonymous No.8291933]

>>8291920
Just to be safe, though, we'd probably better shoot Japan.

[Anonymous No.8291945]

>>8291632
>Implying a volcano at a 15% to 2% melt is a serious threat and even has a chance of erupting.

[Anonymous No.8291955]

>>8291873
To add onto this, find a way to also capture some energy for our next attack on Madagascar. Fuckers have eluded my Plague Inc. for too long...

[Anonymous No.8291981]

>>8291672
Yeah guys let's put a massive geothermal energy plant over the most beautiful landscape in America on the premise that some old ass mantle plume that is at a 2% melt at places is going to erupt within the next 500 years. Even if Yellowstone did have a snowballs chance In hell (which is more likely) of erupting In the 21st century. There's nothing man could do to release that kind of pressure.

[Anonymous No.8291994]

>>8291981
blow off a small piece of the moon and crash it into yellowstone

[Anonymous No.8291995]

>>8291920
>no need to worry
>There is literally no danger
Whatever you say, Nostradamus.

[Anonymous No.8292002]

>>8291632
That is exactly what it is doing all this time with the geysers.

Ground water is constantly reaching it and carrying the heat away.

[Anonymous No.8292004]

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>>8291903
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>>8291914
>>8291922
>samefag post times

[Anonymous No.8292016]

>>8291849
A century is pretty much an instant from an evolutionary perspective

[derp_commander !!SSXdvR3LCoa No.8292202]

>>8291981
Yellowstone is a pretty large area. There's probably some place you could put a plant that wouldn't significantly disturb the natural landscape.

[Anonymous No.8292317]

>>8291704
yellowstone size volcanic eruptions are mass extinction events.

[Anonymous No.8292341]

>>8291908
You misread, he said a career as a super villain, not a gay stripper.

[Anonymous No.8292353]

is Yellowstone the only megavolcannon?

[Anonymous No.8292369]

>>8291873

[Anonymous No.8292372]

>>8292353
no, there's more

[Anonymous No.8292534]

>>8292372
Something seems off....

[Anonymous No.8292541]

>>8291632
What if we throw a giant piece of ice into the giant piece of lava? Which pokemon will win?

[Anonymous No.8292942]

>>8291647
It causes warming in the area it is directly effecting but everywhere else becomes cold. Since Yellowstone is so big it would warm a larger area over a longer period of time but everywhere else and eventually the area directly affected will become cold and most likely an ice age will ensue as the ash and gasses block alot of the sun's heat. I don't know how long each of these stages will last for Yellowstone but that's just how volcanoes work. If anyone was interested.

[Anonymous No.8292959]

>>8291995
MORE

LIKE

NOSTRA

DUMBASS

[Anonymous No.8293054]

>>8292317
>mass extinction events
normal people aren't as massive as americans