I can’t find original NASA report—does anybody have a link? Anyway, seems like dangerous project where small probability of large failure overcast benefits of postponing eruption.
Following an article we published about supervolcanoes last month, a group of Nasa researchers got in touch to share a report previously unseen outside the space agency about the threat
Unfortunately, I don’t think the original NASA report is publically available at this moment in time.
The deep rocks have been (inadvertently) cooled down before. Geothermal power plants regularly go useless after a few decades of operation. We actually can cool down Earth’s interior using the cold space around our planet.
It’s quite clear that we can cool down deep rocks. The problem is that the pressure relations inside the deep rocks change and this can lead to earthquakes and there’s some chance that it will trigger the eruption.
It’s important to have a good model of what will happen before starting the procedure.
I can’t find original NASA report—does anybody have a link? Anyway, seems like dangerous project where small probability of large failure overcast benefits of postponing eruption.
From the BBC article:
Unfortunately, I don’t think the original NASA report is publically available at this moment in time.
The deep rocks have been (inadvertently) cooled down before. Geothermal power plants regularly go useless after a few decades of operation. We actually can cool down Earth’s interior using the cold space around our planet.
It’s quite clear that we can cool down deep rocks. The problem is that the pressure relations inside the deep rocks change and this can lead to earthquakes and there’s some chance that it will trigger the eruption.
It’s important to have a good model of what will happen before starting the procedure.