Re: Rigging a Volcano
From: George (george_at_george.net)
Date: 07/02/04
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Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 18:20:24 -0400
"Mike1" <humphreys-remedial-education-project@usfamily.net> wrote in message
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> Re: Solving Global Warming and this cool summer of 2004
> "Bob Harrington" <rch.NOS-PAM@blarg.net> wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>
> *If* it were actually possible, the thing to do would be create a
> "pressure-release" value (since the worst eruptions are those in which
> magmas contain so much dissolved gases that they fizz like champagne
> upon pressure-release at the surface).
>
> For instance, supposing the Yellowstone supervolcano were priming up to
> a continent-wide catastrophe (with global implications) again. What to
> do? Well let's see.....
>
> First you'd need to construct gargantuan pipes and valves out of a
> substance which could handle years (decades?) of high temperatures *and*
> pressue (titanium/silica-fiber composite?). You'd then need to drill
> down (lining the hole with the pipe, with periodic values added) to the
> magma chamber. The "surface" of the rig should be well away from the
> chamber, in an area of durable continental bedrock, and angle in at
> depth (so if a magma plume sills out from the bore-hole, it can't
> fracture it's way easily to the surface through old caldera fissures in
> a "blow-out".
>
> The objective is to convert a 600,000yr cycle mega-eruption into a
> controlled, lateral surface venting over decades or even centuries, to
> reduce pressue to a stable level. Of course a fat hunk of eastern
> Wyoming would have to be devoted to "ash storage".
>
The only question would be who to aim the "vent" at. AH, Canada! lol
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