Re: Rigging a Volcano
From: Robert Flory (wyogeo_at_bigfoot.com)
Date: 07/10/04
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Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 21:46:19 -0700
"Greg Campbell" <nospam@null.net> wrote in message
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> Alternately, you could allow the magma to degass as it rises, cool it a
> bit, then pump it back down another hole. (Similar to the CO2 degassing
> of Monoun and Nyos.) Given the volume of magama involved, you'd need
> some mighty fat pipes or a bunch of wells.
>
> Of course, you'd wind up dumping a lot of sulfur and other nasty stuff
> into the air. While objectively a much better option than enduring an
> eventual magacaldera eruption, I'm sure the local population would raise
> hell. "I've lived here 70 years, and it ain't erupted once!"
>
> -Greg
>
That solution is far beyond the capability of human engineering. Man has a
really poor record of keeping mother nature from doing what she damn well
pleases. It could well be like trying to pop a cork of a bottle of bubbly
and just letting if fly or letting the air out of a balloon with a pin.
The forces involved are most likely beyond mans abilities. Like Jo says,
nature generally gets the last laugh. To nature, man doesn't count, doesn't
even figure into the equation.
Bob
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