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Block molten rock with wet powdered rock? Wcgw?
Clay, more or less.
Point towards enemy.
Well now you have a very large cannon
Meh, the pressure will do the ball the way into space I bet.
We should launch rockets like this, would save on fuel.
The source of all that stuff leaking out is the sea which all our mountains float on.
Let’s test this theory on your colon…
I remember reading an article discussing the difficulties of re-directing a lava flow. One thing they mentioned was they tried dropping concrete blocks into or in front of the flow, and the concrete just floated on the lava.
I feel like we need to talk about how much heavy metal rocks.
We don’t do this stuff because of Phineas Gage.
I think this could actually be someone impersonating a famous mountain on Twitter, however, the account is verified with a Blue Checkmark, so this must be the real Mt. St. Helens then.
But how could this be possible?
Must be the mountain. People don’t just pretend to be someone else on the internet.
Clearly, the lava is just the blood of the mountain and now it has enough lava blood flowing to achieve sentience and to access xitter.
Even before twitter introduced these fake verifications, some large landmarks were verified by the managing party (like a national park), so if this were older that could’ve been the explanation.
Now it’s just a dumb musktake.
Better yet - use helicopters to drop chunks of icebergs into the volcano to extinguish it.
Keep fuckin around and you’re gonna end up in a Republican cabinet one day.
M.A.G.M.A.
Is that where they keep their gay whores? Or the piss tapes? Which cabinet? Oh, maybe the cabinet?
Once and for All!
But…
Does remind me of my ongoing question of why we aren’t using volcanoes as generators for geothermal power.
Apparently it can be implemented in a way that deliberately draws heat away from the source that’s being used for the power, so why not just stick cooling rods into volcanos and then get free electricity courtesy of the earth being a hot pocket?
In the volcano that’s about to erupt, there is a geothermal power plant right next to it. Same for the similar eruption in Hawaii, it had a geothermal plant already.
Because the electricity wouldn’t be free, you’d have to build a ton of expensive infrastructure in the middle of nowhere (people tend not to live near active volcanoes), in an area that is very geologically active (cos of the volcano) with a real risk that everything you’ve built gets wiped out at some point in the next few decades (volcano).
There are a ton of ways to generate clean electricity, the trick is doing it in a way that is even remotely cost effective $/MWh
People absolutely live near active volcanoes. They have some of the just fertile soil on the planet. Naples, Sicily, Hawaii, Iceland, Japan, Indonesia etc. In fact Iceland is almost entirely powered by geothermal energy.
“(people tend not to live near active volcanoes)”
[Hawaii enters the chat]
Your comment is of course completely accurate. The last paragraph is depressing though, “we have all the solutions, but we won’t do them because money”.
When the price difference is big, it’s kind of, ‘oh well, have to be practical’, when the shitty solution is picked. When the price difference is small and the shitty solution still gets picked; that’s depressive. That is when governments need to incentivice the better solution; cause capitalism won’t.
Good news: solar and wind are actually substantially cheaper than coal or gas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source
Bad news: large parts of the world have built their economies around coal and gas extraction, and the cost to society of those industries collapsing is harder to quantify
Geothermal use steam to generate power tho, and active volcanoes is quite risky to build a high cost power plant because we wouldn’t know when it will erupt. Also active volcanoes might be too hot for the job.
How hot is too hot tho? Doesn’t more hot just mean more energy?
Also, could you locate the electricity generating parts away from the volcano itself and just conduct the heat from the hotzone itself far enough away to still draw the heat out of the system without posing an infrastructure risk to the system?
I really wonder about the potential to basically turn volcanic hot zones into batteries and just suck the excess heat energy that makes them dangerous out of them. It seems like the biggest untapped source of power we have at our disposal next to the sun and all the forces it drives.
Nuclear reactors and geothermal power plants both simply boil water to push steam through a spinning turbine to make energy. That’s literally it. There’s no other way to utilize that heat in a safer or more efficient way.
How hot is too hot tho? Doesn’t more hot just mean more energy?
It just boil water to create steam to spin the turbine, too hot will harm the equipment quicker.
could you locate the electricity generating parts away from the volcano itself and just conduct the heat from the hotzone itself far enough away to still draw the heat out of the system without posing an infrastructure risk to the system?
Yes, they already been doing it, either close (but not too close) to volcano, or in a place where the earth crust is thinner(which is still near volcano), but never on the volcano itself. It’s one of the location specific renewable energy.
Also we don’t just turn heat to electricity, we use heat to boil water to create steam to generate electricity, the source of heat is what different between power plant, like for example coal, incinerator, nuclear, and sunlight, all are just to boil water.
Just keep adding concrete until it works
I saw people on YouTube pour the cement directly into a hole they were filling. Should make it even quicker to not have to add water it can just mix with the molten rock.
Fools. You need to put ice in first so the concrete doesnt melt.
No! You stupid stupid!11! You have to use Xtra Strong mints. The blue kind. That’s a stronger cooling that anything else.
Even more foolish fool. Just dump water down the volcano. The lava source blocks turn to obsidian and are completely harmless.
What if you screw the mix and make cobblestone?
What is this, some sort of craft and mine vidya games?
That lava already has to break through literal kilometres of rock to get there. A few hundred (let’s be generous) extra meters of pourable rock ain’t gonna do shit.
Or as the guy at bike shop put it “no you can’t put duct tape on your pierced tyre. If a nail got through rubber, its probably gonna also get through tape.”
Not that I want to defend using duct tape for this, but fixing a tyre isn’t about keeping nails out but closing the hole after the last one.
But look at the picture, the lava is trapped.
The picture is dumb as hell. The lava would just flow out of the big gaping vertical hole in the front.
Gonna need to see some credentials buddy. If I don’t see volcanoologist, I’m leaving.
Not to mention the average normal size of an opening you’d have to plug to begin with. Even if it didn’t just drain down the hole or dissolve the moment it got to lava, it would be a ludicrous amount of concrete just to make a layer a few feet thick. Even if you did manage to make a plug a hundred or more feet deep and it didn’t melt or move, an eruption would likely just blow the mountain apart from around it.
If it’s concrete i think it will just explode upon contact because of the water content.
Yeah, that “even if” of mine was doing some heavy lifting.
I want to see it done just to see how far the concrete cap goes flying when it finally pops off.
Concrete does explode upon contact with molten metal…I can’t imagine how this doesn’t end up in an explosion
All you’d need is ultra fast drying lava-proof concrete. I’m surprised no one has thought of that yet. Then once the crater vent is fully plugged you would just need to coat the rest of the mountain in the same concrete. Voila, problem solved.
I keep thinking about the big job we have ahead of us, paving over Yellowstone Park.
Don’t give them any ideas
What you mean? Cement stronk!
I think we can still work with the spirit of the solution. The main issue is that the lava will break the concrete. The solution is pretty simple. If we take some buckets of water we can pour it into the volcano creating a layer of obsidian. Obsidian is much harder and will easily contain the magma.
Just get a bucket of water, ffs!
Minecraft logic
I feel like when the volcano does explode it’s just gonna launch that concrete plug like popping a pimple.
I’d imagine it would just melt…
¿Porque no los dose?
Concrete is a mixture of rocks , sand and cement which kind of acts like a glue. So, yeah concrete would probably melt.
Tens of thousands of tons of rapidly fragmenting concrete being launched into the upper atmosphere - cos what a major volcanic eruption needs is extra shrapnel
tf is this concrete shit just use some goddamn sandpaper to sand the fuckin mountain flat duh you motherfuckers is dumb af fr
finally, a sensible solution
Can we get this dude to be head of volcano NASA or w/e?
ugh fuck guess I may as well if them dudes can’t figure this shit out
VASA
NAVA
It’s concrete, not cement. Cement does fuck all without water, aggregate and sand. Don’t forget your tensile strength in rebar. It’s like calling ketchup tomatoes.
