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Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a geothermal power plant?

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Re: Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a geothermal power plant?

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sounds great but anyone living downtown is paying over $0.50/kWh

Downtown where? LADWP switched to time of use scheduling, so my rates are anywhere from 0.16/kwh to 0.21/kwh ( https://www.ladwp.com/ladwp/faces/ladwp/residential/r-custom... ) SCE is a little more expensive with their tiered plans ranging from 0.32/kwh to 0.42/kwh For context, downtown LA should be all on LADWP

Downtown San Jose is around $0.75/kWh if you use power to heat/cool your 2BR unit.

Re: Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a geothermal power plant?

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A federal law can easily be changed by simply passing another federal law. It's not like a constitutional change. Of course, this requires political will too, but unlike various other issues, I doubt that some old law protecting national parks is going to be held as sacrosanct as the second amendment. The GOP certainly doesn't care about protecting NP resources, and the Dems will agree too as long as enough scientist…

It's never this simple. There are multitudes of interested parties in either direction not just at the federal level, but below it from state, to county, to city and more.

This is a National Park. There is no county or city involved; it's federal land. Even the state it's in has pretty much zero say.

Re: Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a geothermal power plant?

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He literally just said that's not how volcanos work

Lol, thats a quote from the article.

I, for one, am pretty sure the article is wrong there. What I've heard from geologists is that Yellowstone's magma chambers simply are not molten enough to erupt.

Re: Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a geothermal power plant?

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Lol, thats a quote from the article.

I, for one, am pretty sure the article is wrong there. What I've heard from geologists is that Yellowstone's magma chambers simply are not molten enough to erupt.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/yellowstone-supervolcano-lot-magma...

Re: Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a geothermal power plant?

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It's never this simple. There are multitudes of interested parties in either direction not just at the federal level, but below it from state, to county, to city and more.

This is a National Park. There is no county or city involved; it's federal land. Even the state it's in has pretty much zero say.

They have a say. Everyone is going to throw in their two cents here. A policy change like this involves the legislative branch which involves everyone. Even corporate interests.

It's not going to be some scientists making a statement and then the federal government putting their hammer down. In china I can see this happening, but in the US it's a democracy.

Re: Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a geothermal power plant?

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post #135

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I, for one, am pretty sure the article is wrong there. What I've heard from geologists is that Yellowstone's magma chambers simply are not molten enough to erupt.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/yellowstone-supervolcano-lot-magma...

Right, "up to 20%", whereas the threshold for "barely eruptible" is in the 50% range, according to this article: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1617105113 Unless the rules are way different for supereruptions, which I guess we have to consider, but probably not 30% different.
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