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Yellowstone volcano eruption: NASA to SAVE the world from supervolcano erupting
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1028341/yellowstone-volcano-eruption-nasa-drill-hole-wyoming
Yellowstone erupts every 600,000 years and it has been about 600,000 years since it last exploded. Yellowstone National Park lies on a magma reservoir that creates geysers and hot basins and is able to destroy humanity. Professor of astrobiology at the University of Westminster Lewis Dartnell has recently said that a Yellowstone eruption could end humanity.
Now Brian Wilcox of the NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab explained to BBC that the US space agency plans to “drill up to 10km down into the supervolcano, and pump down water at high pressure,” thus slowly extracting heat from it.
"You would have to give the geothermal companies incentives to drill somewhat deeper and use hotter water than they usually would, but you would pay back your initial investment, and get electricity which can power the surrounding area for a period of potentially tens of thousands of years. And the long-term benefit is that you prevent a future supervolcano eruption which would devastate humanity," he explained.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1028341/yellowstone-volcano-eruption-nasa-drill-hole-wyoming
Yellowstone erupts every 600,000 years and it has been about 600,000 years since it last exploded. Yellowstone National Park lies on a magma reservoir that creates geysers and hot basins and is able to destroy humanity. Professor of astrobiology at the University of Westminster Lewis Dartnell has recently said that a Yellowstone eruption could end humanity.
Now Brian Wilcox of the NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab explained to BBC that the US space agency plans to “drill up to 10km down into the supervolcano, and pump down water at high pressure,” thus slowly extracting heat from it.
"You would have to give the geothermal companies incentives to drill somewhat deeper and use hotter water than they usually would, but you would pay back your initial investment, and get electricity which can power the surrounding area for a period of potentially tens of thousands of years. And the long-term benefit is that you prevent a future supervolcano eruption which would devastate humanity," he explained.
