So… Just turn a blank round into a live bullet…
Excellent analogy, but now I want the math. Think we could push this past the gravity well? Fuck space elevator, I got ejecto-volcano cuz.
Isn’t a space cannon or whatever it’s called a very old sci-fi idea?
It’s like the oldest, it’s how Jules Verne sent men to the moon in “From the Earth to the Moon”
Just keep adding concrete until it works
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?
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.
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.
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
Would concrete even hold. I mean lava is molten rock and cement is kind of a rock. So wouldn’t the cement melt before pressure could build up?
Yes. That’s the joke.
Even if the plug would hold the volcano would just split open another hole in the earth and erupt from there
More job opportunities. Volcano hole filler would look great in my résumé.
And that would be a literal lava canon
Yes, there are many levels of stupid in this person’s proposal.
edit: “heavy metal rocks” would likely also meet the same fate.
A depleted uranium cap with a “whistle” pressure release might just be what’s needed to solve the issue though
Most cements melt at a higher temperature than most lava gets to, so it would be solid chunks of cement getting blasted miles out when the pressure builds high enough to erupt
It probably wouldn’t melt, but if you heat moist concrete it will spall ans crumble to bits before too long.
As a politician I can assure you that if you vote for me I will put into law that volcanoes will be forbidden to erupt in our wonderful country.
The source of all that stuff leaking out is the sea which all our mountains float on.
Dude just tape a cease and desist letter on the volcano. And if they still don’t listen just get the cops to shoot it.
Let’s test this theory on your colon…
I think this could actually be someone impersonating a famous mountain on Twittern 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.
Just add several layers of cement all around the area you want to save. Then, it’ll either be someone else’s problem or lava landberg.
Nobody going to mention that we have a sentient mountain with internet access? Wtf
It’s 2023 things are weird now you just gotta accept it
This reminds me of when Trump suggested nuking a hurricane.
It reminded me of him recommanding drinking desinfactant.
