Just pump out the magma til it’s empty and use it to heat homes. Win win
I’m absolutely sure this wouldn’t work but I need to know why it wouldn’t work
Simple. What are you going to pump it with? If you have something you can contain magma in to pump it around, why not just build everything out of that and not worry about the magma anymore?
Fuck, that’s a great idea! I second ouRKaoS’ idea and propose we give them a $600k budget to implement it!
I thought we just needed a good guy with a volcano.
Just put up some “no eruption” signs.
That’d be about as ridiculous as the proposal that is being dismissed into oblivion in this thread but at least economically and technically feasible.
Three or four signs should suffice.
The sign won’t do much good without force of law. We need legislation outlawing these eruptions.
That goes without saying. We need to regulate volcanic burp strength, ejaculation mass and toxic fumes. Pyroclastic flows as well.
But if we regulate burp strength, ejaculation mass, and toxic fumes, my husband won’t have any hobbies left!
That’s harsh. He might get a permit if he promises to not kill entire villages at a time.
We still talking volcanos or have we moved on to regulating Taco Bell and porn?
I see no reason to differentiate
I’m sure Super Glue would work too.
God: What the fuck are they doing down there bro
If pressure builds up we won’t riaj anything because the cemenbt would just be propoulksed in the outter space and not hurt anyone.
's brilliant plan for reaching Mars
Damn straight! Gotta teach those space bugs a lesson about messing with Buenos Aries.
I like how the diagram contains an illustration of one of the flaws in the plan
Volcano erupting? Just tell it to stop. It legally can’t erupt without your permission.
WOKE
A fellow Jedi
I just realised, that I first learned about pressure as a kid, when watching cartoon characters trying too stop a leak using body parts.
The people that get off watching those pimple popping videos on YouTube would literally NUT to this one weird TRICK
clogging pores
Oh I get it! If you stack rock on the hot rock, you can stop the hot rock from moving the rock with more rock!
… Unironically, this DOES work … sorta’. Though it’d be dumb to do by man, because a ‘rock plug’ is exactly what forms at the top of many volcanos after the magma cools. It’s why many volcanos have flank eruptions where magma pushes through some side crack, or build and build until the rock plug pops catastrophically.
Of course some volcanos don’t have the right mix to form rock plugs, and any non-dormant volcano can pop them, but the point is it does have an effect that can delay and redirect eruptions.
If humanity doesn’t kill itself off soon (bad news on that front), I wouldn’t be surprised if one day we’re building megastructures around volcanos specifically to manage them instead of being subject to them.
Haha, that’s pretty cool. Is there anything written about this?
Absolutely TONS of info, though I’m not a geologist, nor have I studied much, so I sadly do not know of any solid references I could simply point at. I’ve just picked up a few details over the years watching random geology videos on YouTube.
GeologyHub makes frequent short videos on current activity, and he always comments on the mechanisms at play, and even makes and explains his educated guesses on what will happen. A plug forming comes up quite often when eruptions slow, even in eruptions that are destined to continue erupting.
If we were really ambitious could we harness geothermal energy to such an extent as to prevent major eruptions if we could predict them?
Maybe not geothermal per se, but something would be possible, with unlimited budget and resources.
Though the problem is just how MUCH energy volcanos have. Heat content is A LOT of energy. The vast (on a human scale) magma chambers contain an insane amount of energy. Rock has a heat capacity less than water by weight, but rocks weigh a lot more than water and can get a lot hotter.
So, it’d have to take away a TON of heat, likely more than humans use in a year for a single small eruption, but I’m too lazy to do the math right now…
Also, many eruptions are fueled by pressure from dissolved gasses in the magma. That pressure will stay present until the magma cools enough to resist it itself, which could require dropping an entire underground lake of lava by hundreds of degrees.
Then there are undoubtedly some eruptions that are driven by tectonics, meteor impacts, and other physical pressures that might not be manageable via heat control at all.
Rad. That’s probably a level of energy harvesting between fusion and Dyson sphere.
I think there are much easier ways to get massive amounts of power than try to interface with such an incredibly chaotic and unpredictable system.
An even bigger problem though is that most of the time geologists really have to aggressively make the case to anybody that their work is valuable when it isn’t directly contributing to finding oil or evaluating groundwater reserves.
Studying volcanoes, even in places with lots of volcanoes, is considered kind of a dubious practice by most people and taxpayers. Yeah sure, Mount Saint Helens goes off and all of a sudden people will take volcanoes very seriously for a bit, but generally people don’t give a shit about geology even if they haven’t been infected with “the earth is only 10,000 years old!” brainworms.
I mean, geologists will give a warning like “well, we could all die with no warning anytime from now through the next 50,000 years so we are very very due for a catastrophic eruption and we need to prepare!”.
Like yo, we can’t even agree to fucking give universal healthcare to people in my country…. sigh.
Well I think it’s more the case that the lava finds the weakest spot to push through. That can change over millennia.
The chances that you will create a concrete block that’s stronger than the next weak spot is pretty slim.
Yes, exactly on the idea. “The weakest spot” is distinctly NOT the hunk of solid rock cooled at the top, more often than you clearly think.
It doesn’t have to have a huge effect to never the less completely change the nature of an eruption. Just look at Mt St Helens. The top didn’t even have to pop. The magma just lubricated the side of the mountain enough until the whole damn side slid away, allowing the eruption to occur.
They don’t often redirect every eruption, becuse many have NO other weak paths, so the magma pushes, and it either pops the rock plug or melts it. Not that many eruptions start fast enough to catastrophically pop the plug, and not all eruptions are remotely equal.
My point was NOT that the plugs make a HUGE difference, but that they make A difference.
why not like pour water on the volcano, my dude
Now we have lava and a cement projectile!
Hold on a sec… what if just aim the volcano at our enemies?
Putting a gun barrel on the top of our volcanoes and just randomly waving it around at other countries lol i love it
I feel like with the direction of fire that’s more of a penis than a gun. I’m on board let’s do it!
It’s a shame we can’t grow a large enough potato.
Not with that attitude
If we put enough corn kernels it would fill up the volcano with popcorn and it will just shoot popcorn all over the tri state area 🧠