Scientists Unveil Radical Plan to Drill Into a Volcano For Near-Unlimited Energy::undefined
Garbage headline. Being able to study magma’s behavior in this way is extremely cool though. It is also not exactly the side of a volcano.
Not cool, hot!
But being hot is now cool
Eyeroll headline
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Yo I’m doing the same thing in my Oxygen Not Included playthrough right now
Great game and amazing simulation! I fee likel I learned a lot about the difficulty of balancing thermal loads in a closed system.
These guys will do anything except using hydro, wind, solar, and nuclear energy
Yeah what’s with the weird fixation on magma over there at the uh… *checks notes* Krafla Magma Testbed Organization?
You realise geothermal is included in the category of clean, green energy? And Iceland has been pioneering the field for ages?
I saw this move! They end up drilling to the core so they can place nuclear explosions to restart the core. Then they had to drill back going up. It was a good movie. Also. Everyone has always thought about doing this.
Actually, I really did enjoy that movie as well. I believe it’s called The Core and came out in 2008 If I remember correctly.
Just looked it up. It’s 2003.
Ah, thanks
LOL. It’s cheesy. LOL.
i always thought the problem with this geothermal-delivered-to-surface was transmitting the power over long distances…
course, this article is really just about drilling into a magma chamber and the volcano not going boom
Spin a turbine, generate electricity, transmit via HVDC?
too effective, HVAC with large losses is the best I can offer
We did our best.
Don’t worry, water boils, steam spins turbine.
The article says they have one example of drilling into a magma chamber and it not going boom. I hope their optimism is justified, but this looks like the plot at the beginning of an apocalyptic movie
One thing that surprised me in the article - I had no idea magma could be acidic!
This is not something I had ever thought about before and I am also fascinated.
Fun fact, when you touch acidic magma/lava, it does burn your skin!
Isn’t this when the lava demon things jump out and cause some ruckus?
There is no possibility of this ever backfiring in the slightest way, like oh say awakening something sleeping deep in the earth’s crust. :-P
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I wonder if it will make the volcano more stable.
MUAHAHAHAHA!
Near-unlimited as in “renewable”, right x) ?
You can throw your trash in the lava to create more.
You get a bonus smokey flavor, and that is how stars are made.
Renewable in the sense of solar, by the time it runs out we’ll have bigger things to worry about
That’s my point, unlimited in time, not as in "we can get as much as we want from it. Title is kinda click-bait
