Scientists Unveil Radical Plan to Drill Into a Volcano For Near-Unlimited Energy

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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  • Hotdogman@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not cool, hot!

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But being hot is now cool

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• pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  These guys will do anything except using hydro, wind, solar, and nuclear energy

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  • sunbeam60@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’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.

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  • thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah what’s with the weird fixation on magma over there at the uh… *checks notes* Krafla Magma Testbed Organization?

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  • wahming@monyet.cc ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You realise geothermal is included in the category of clean, green energy? And Iceland has been pioneering the field for ages?

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• LWD@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  reaction face of Doom Marine with coffee

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• stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Eyeroll headline

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• werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Actually, I really did enjoy that movie as well. I believe it’s called The Core and came out in 2008 If I remember correctly.

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just looked it up. It’s 2003.

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    • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      LOL. It’s cheesy. LOL.

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• jpreston2005@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I kind of thought that this is what Geothermal energy was… Or will this be Geothermal energy on steroids?

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  • Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    With 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.

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    • wahming@monyet.cc ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Iceland has geothermal power plants going down 2.5km and with temperatures of ~250°C that produce electricity, not heat.

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• ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yo I’m doing the same thing in my Oxygen Not Included playthrough right now

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  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Great 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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• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Spin a turbine, transmit via HVDC?

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    • LordKitsuna@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      too effective, HVAC with large losses is the best I can offer

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  • magikmw@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t worry, water boils, steam spins turbine.

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The 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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• 5too@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One thing that surprised me in the article - I had no idea magma could be acidic!

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  • Chetzemoka@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is not something I had ever thought about before and I am also fascinated.

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  • Zink@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fun fact, when you touch acidic magma/lava, it does burn your skin!

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• OpenStars@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There is no possibility of this ever backfiring in the slightest way, like oh say awakening something sleeping deep in the earth’s crust. :-P

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  • jpreston2005@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    we drilled too greedily, and too deep. You know what we awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum. Shadow and Flame.

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    • OpenStars@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To 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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  • averagedrunk@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m less concerned about that and more concerned about supervillains building lairs.

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  • NegativeInf@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pluto?

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• Tristaniopsis@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Isn’t this when the lava demon things jump out and cause some ruckus?

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• TheFriar@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  #MUAHAHAHAHA!

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• xia@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wonder if it will make the volcano more stable.

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• zaart@lemmy.tedomum.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Near-unlimited as in "renewable", right x) ?

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  • Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can throw your trash in the lava to create more.

    You get a bonus smokey flavor, and that is how stars are made.

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  • wahming@monyet.cc ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Renewable in the sense of solar, by the time it runs out we’ll have bigger things to worry about

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    • zaart@lemmy.tedomum.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That'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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• sunbeam60@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think I’ll take “a real commercial plant” from Eavor rather than this, thank you.

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