Scientists Unveil Radical Plan to Drill Into a Volcano For Near-Unlimited Energy
Scientists Unveil Radical Plan to Drill Into a Volcano For Near-Unlimited Energy
You don't have to be an expert volcanologist to figure out that drilling straight into the side of a volcano is a rather ambitious idea.
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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.
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24Eyeroll headline
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I kind of thought that this is what Geothermal energy was... Or will this be Geothermal energy on steroids?
17With standard near-surface geothermal energy, boreholes up to 200 meters are drilled. The heat difference from that depth is only around 10-15°C, but that's enough to collect the energy to heat buildings.
So yes, drilling into lava areas will spice up things.
12Iceland has geothermal power plants going down 2.5km and with temperatures of ~250°C that produce electricity, not heat.
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Yo I'm doing the same thing in my Oxygen Not Included playthrough right now
16Great game and amazing simulation! I fee likel I learned a lot about the difficulty of balancing thermal loads in a closed system.
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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.
16These guys will do anything except using hydro, wind, solar, and nuclear energy
14There’s nothing wrong with thermal energy plants. They are real and with companies like Eavor making real commercial plants using closed-loops there’s a lot of stuff happening in the space right now.
24Yeah what's with the weird fixation on magma over there at the uh... *checks notes* Krafla Magma Testbed Organization?
22You realise geothermal is included in the category of clean, green energy? And Iceland has been pioneering the field for ages?
4Yeah, I know geothermal is a renewable energy form but I can't imagine drilling into magma would be a good option
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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
14Don't worry, water boils, steam spins turbine.
5The 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
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One thing that surprised me in the article - I had no idea magma could be acidic!
13This is not something I had ever thought about before and I am also fascinated.
11Fun fact, when you touch acidic magma/lava, it does burn your skin!
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Isn’t this when the lava demon things jump out and cause some ruckus?
9MUAHAHAHAHA!
8There is no possibility of this ever backfiring in the slightest way, like oh say awakening something sleeping deep in the earth's crust. :-P
8we drilled too greedily, and too deep. You know what we awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum. Shadow and Flame.
13To be fair, probably all they will find is melted rock and like... gas. But it's fun to dream isn't it?!:-D
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I'm less concerned about that and more concerned about supervillains building lairs.
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1Pluto?
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I wonder if it will make the volcano more stable.
7Near-unlimited as in "renewable", right x) ?
6You can throw your trash in the lava to create more.
You get a bonus smokey flavor, and that is how stars are made.
4Renewable in the sense of solar, by the time it runs out we'll have bigger things to worry about
2That's my point, unlimited in time, not as in "we can get as much as we want from it. Title is kinda click-bait
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I think I’ll take “a real commercial plant” from Eavor rather than this, thank you.
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