Re: Solving Global Warming and this cool summer of 2004
From: Archimedes Plutonium (a_plutonium_at_iw.net)
Date: 06/27/04
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Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 02:05:57 -0500
Sun, 27 Jun 2004 06:34:37 GMT Bob Harrington wrote:
> Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
>
> > I mentioned concrete as a plug which is a foolish notion on my part.
> > I guess when I think of a big plug I think of concrete and a dam on a
> > river is really a concrete plug. But I wonder if we can fill the
> > plume of a active volcano with water whether that serves as a plug.
> > If we can use water to form a plug, which I doubt, but if we could
> > then the day to harness volcanoes maybe nearer at hand.
>
> Concrete is less dense and likely weaker than the congealed lava that
> many stratovolcanoes plug themselves with - and such natural plugs tend
> to lead to far more explosive eruptions when they finally occur.
>
Any idea as to how many stratovolcanoes presently exist on Earth with a
plug in place? If I am not mistaken I remember Vesuvius has a plug. Do not
know if Yellowstone has a plug.
>
> Adding water to the equation will create vast amounts of steam, which
> only adds to the violence of the explosion.
Well, that maybe a technique in order to explode a volcano. Suppose we
find a volcano that has a plug and remote from population. And so we want
to set off one of these volcanoes in a controlled manner. So we drill down
and start pumping in water so that it builds up enormous steam and blows up
into a full eruption.
>
>
> Somehow, you would have to find a way to divert the underground magma
> away from the volcano to somewhere it wouldn't cause problems, or figure
> out how to release all the dissolved gasses that create the eruptive
> pressures within the magma.
>
> No small technical hurdles here! =)
>
> Bob ^,,^
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