Scientists Unveil Radical Plan to Drill Into a Volcano For Near-Unlimited Energy::undefined
These guys will do anything except using hydro, wind, solar, and nuclear energy
Scientists Unveil Radical Plan to Drill Into a Volcano For Near-Unlimited Energy
Submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
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pineapplelover@lemm.ee 10 months ago
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 10 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.
thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Yeah what’s with the weird fixation on magma over there at the uh… *checks notes* Krafla Magma Testbed Organization?
wahming@monyet.cc 10 months ago
You realise geothermal is included in the category of clean, green energy? And Iceland has been pioneering the field for ages?
LWD@lemm.ee 10 months ago
stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Eyeroll headline
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 10 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.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 10 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.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 10 months ago
LOL. It’s cheesy. LOL.
jpreston2005@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I kind of thought that this is what Geothermal energy was… Or will this be Geothermal energy on steroids?
Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 10 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.
wahming@monyet.cc 10 months ago
Iceland has geothermal power plants going down 2.5km and with temperatures of ~250°C that produce electricity, not heat.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Yo I’m doing the same thing in my Oxygen Not Included playthrough right now
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 10 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.
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 10 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
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Spin a turbine, transmit via HVDC?
LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 10 months ago
too effective, HVAC with large losses is the best I can offer
magikmw@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Don’t worry, water boils, steam spins turbine.
AA5B@lemmy.world 10 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
5too@lemmy.world 10 months ago
One thing that surprised me in the article - I had no idea magma could be acidic!
Chetzemoka@startrek.website 10 months ago
This is not something I had ever thought about before and I am also fascinated.
Zink@programming.dev 10 months ago
Fun fact, when you touch acidic magma/lava, it does burn your skin!
OpenStars@startrek.website 10 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
jpreston2005@lemmy.world 10 months ago
we drilled too greedily, and too deep. You know what we awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum. Shadow and Flame.
OpenStars@startrek.website 10 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
averagedrunk@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
I’m less concerned about that and more concerned about supervillains building lairs.
NegativeInf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Pluto?
Tristaniopsis@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Isn’t this when the lava demon things jump out and cause some ruckus?
TheFriar@lemm.ee 10 months ago
#MUAHAHAHAHA!
xia@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
I wonder if it will make the volcano more stable.
zaart@lemmy.tedomum.net 10 months ago
Near-unlimited as in "renewable", right x) ?
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 10 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.
wahming@monyet.cc 10 months ago
Renewable in the sense of solar, by the time it runs out we’ll have bigger things to worry about
zaart@lemmy.tedomum.net 10 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
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 10 months ago
I think I’ll take “a real commercial plant” from Eavor rather than this, thank you.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 10 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.
Hotdogman@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not cool, hot!
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But being hot is now cool