Can you drill into Yellowstone like the Gulf and tap that geothermal energy and use? | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 861369 ![]() 07/20/2010 10:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The heat could create lots of electricity. A good investment. Quoting: BP Executive 1042606It is possible, but federal laws prohibit drilling for geothermal energy in yellowstone park. Not to mention, I don't think I'd wanna be there when they drill for hot water and accidentally hit magma. The magma in some parts of the park is very shallow, in some places only a few thousand feet down. |
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Egadsno User ID: 1233766 ![]() 01/17/2011 04:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ofcourse it is possible, but it is a unique engineering feat and should be addressed as such. The yellowstone caldera could easily power every form of energy concern on the earth currently. Just tapping into one of 30 or so hotspots could power the united states. The problem is people do not have an imagination nor the information required to have such an imagination so there will always be tons of nay sayers to this idea. |
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TheRealUFOMan User ID: 1210499 ![]() 01/17/2011 05:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Actually you might want to research the geyser they say have been causing earthquakes here because they are drilling No One On GLP Could Have Known The Whole Time I Was An Ambassador To Them If You Book It, They Will Come What Energy Caused The Universe To Come Into Place Almost Instantaneously? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 84198874 ![]() 01/05/2023 08:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This video that was published about a month ago is Max Keiser on BitCoin in El Salvador. It is 62.6 minutes long. A very interesting sidebar is that El Salvador is looking into geothermal energy. Max cites the Iceland example as something to be emulated. Any geothermal asset anywhere can be so emulated. In Hawaii they are using propane as a working fluid rather than water. I suspect this is a more efficient system. Other fluids have been used in heat pumps including ammonia (which is somewhat corrosive and explosive) and carbon dioxide. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 46926386 ![]() 01/05/2023 08:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I worked at Yellowstone in 2019. Believe me the infrastructure and roads would never allow the size of machinery you would need. The whole park is a double loop like a figure 8. I wept when last year the rain killed a lot of access and knew what a head ache it would be to rebuild. I worked out of West Yellowstone Montana. Very cool. I loved Bozeman too. I called it the big little city. Would drive up there and think of Star Trek how that’s where first contact with the Vulcans happened |
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ole homesteader User ID: 82260019 01/05/2023 08:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yellowstone a world heritage site and is not to be developed. on a more practical note, the shallow magma needs a plastic behaving rock (hot) above it to allow the magma chamber to wax and wane as it goes through cyclic episodes. if one were to drill and extract this shallow heat, it would make the crust more brittle and prone to cracking during these cyclic episodes. a large or sudden crack could allow the hot fluids below to start a cascade as the shallow pressure rapidly falls, fluids erupt, and the pressure holding the magma chamber from erupting collapses. Yellowstone is a super volcano and such an eruption would continental in scale. some things in nature are best observed, not bent to the will of man. sundance |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 83763088 ![]() 01/05/2023 09:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Nothing says human stupidity louder than perforating the surface of an active super volcano just so we can have the electric power to watch tv and listen to the government tell us why it's a great idea. Also this thread is from 2010. We're a little bit late on the conversation. |
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Weisshaupt User ID: 74260129 ![]() 01/05/2023 09:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ofcourse it is possible, but it is a unique engineering feat and should be addressed as such. The yellowstone caldera could easily power every form of energy concern on the earth currently. Just tapping into one of 30 or so hotspots could power the united states. Quoting: Egadsno 1233766 The problem is people do not have an imagination nor the information required to have such an imagination so there will always be tons of nay sayers to this idea. Hey, I know - lets make the nation dependent upon one power source built on top of an active volcano. |
memyself&i User ID: 76326459 ![]() 01/05/2023 12:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | would destroy the western 2/3's of North America. Which i suppose would be a public service !!! Yet i have fond memories of Yellowstone. When i was sixteen my family was in Yellowstone when my Father had his first massive heart attack. My Mother emptied the cash she and Dad had into a envelope and gave it to my brothers and i and then got into the ambulance with my father. My older brother took the cash. Put on some clean clothing and took off to some town near the park. Leaving my younger brother there and alone in a abandoned camp grounds. I have to admit that it was the most incredible adventure of my life. My younger brother and i had been in the scouts and had suffered off grid camping trips so we knew how to survive....lol. We also knew how to hike and how to get to the hospital my father was at. And cool enough not to mention why our older brother was not there also.. even make up excuses why. In hind site it was the greatest adventure of our lives. Mom soon figured out what my brother had done. And started to make plans for us to get back home with out telling my father what had occured. But my older brother returned before that was necessary and promised to drive the car and us back home. As he was due to go back to college. So he did. My mother never forgave him ... but my younger brother had to agree that thanks to that older brother we had the adventure of our lives. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 84198874 ![]() 01/05/2023 01:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It would probably cause a disaster which Quoting: memyself&i 76326459 would destroy the western 2/3's of North America. Which i suppose would be a public service !!! Yet i have fond memories of Yellowstone. When i was sixteen my family was in Yellowstone when my Father had his first massive heart attack. My Mother emptied the cash she and Dad had into a envelope and gave it to my brothers and i and then got into the ambulance with my father. My older brother took the cash. Put on some clean clothing and took off to some town near the park. Leaving my younger brother there and alone in a abandoned camp grounds. I have to admit that it was the most incredible adventure of my life. My younger brother and i had been in the scouts and had suffered off grid camping trips so we knew how to survive....lol. We also knew how to hike and how to get to the hospital my father was at. And cool enough not to mention why our older brother was not there also.. even make up excuses why. In hind site it was the greatest adventure of our lives. Mom soon figured out what my brother had done. And started to make plans for us to get back home with out telling my father what had occured. But my older brother returned before that was necessary and promised to drive the car and us back home. As he was due to go back to college. So he did. My mother never forgave him ... but my younger brother had to agree that thanks to that older brother we had the adventure of our lives. Great story and I'm glad it worked out well for you two boys. Your mother knew just how irresponsive that was, but if she is still around you might tell her your side of the story. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 84198874 ![]() 01/05/2023 02:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Chico Hot Springs at Pray Montana uses the Yellowstone area geothermal to heat pools, a greenhouse, spa, hotel, and restaurant. A potential vacation destination: [link to www.chicohotsprings.com (secure)] Greenhouse: [link to www.chicohotsprings.com (secure)] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 18316479 ![]() 01/05/2023 02:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Just took a road trip to yellowstone. As soon as I was at that beautiful, yet smelly fart hole, I realized that they could have used that site as a way of creating perpetual geothermal energy. I ALSO learned that yellowstone was the FIRST national park, made to be protected and left pristine.... by none other than J D. rockefffelller himself, who accomplished this by underhanded means.... WHY? Because he knew that if they turned Yellowstone into a power source, it would ruin his oil business. SO what did he do? He turned the greatest power source in the United States, into a tourist attraction that everyone would DRIVE and burn oil to go and see. The psychopaths in charge do have a sense of humor. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 84198874 ![]() 01/05/2023 02:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Warming Up to Geothermal’s Potential Via Google Earth [link to www.renewableenergyworld.com (secure)] Work a bit slow today? And did you ever wonder just how hot it is miles beneath your cubicle? Luckily, the good folks at Google have you covered on both fronts. Welcome to geothermal data heaven. Researchers at SMU’s Geothermal Laboratory have built a vast database detailing the geothermal potential way, way below the earth’s surface, and Google has taken that information and laid it atop its interactive Google Earth platform. Spend a little time with it — or a lot — and you’ll end up with all sorts of nuggets that will help you better understand Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) and its immense potential in the United States. The experience will certainly give you a better sense of where the hot spots are. You probably didn’t need Google Earth to tell you that Firehole Lake in Wyoming was a rather good source of geothermal energy. But did you know that places like Louisiana and Mississippi also pack their fair share of heat? Or that West Virginia’s geothermal resource is equivalent to the state’s existing king of power — coal? The goal of the 35,000 data sites is to help users deepen their knowledge of geothermal potential in areas not often associated with the energy resource. As technologies improve, methods such as EGS may one day tap into this often undiscovered source of clean energy. In the meantime, you have some exploring to do. First, download the latest version of Google Earth and then download and open the file. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 84198874 ![]() 01/05/2023 02:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Southern Methodist University Geothermal Lab; [link to www.smu.edu (secure)] Our expertise includes: Academic research by faculty, staff, and students Geothermal Maps such as the Geothermal Map of North America Projects, such as the National Geothermal Data System, the Enhanced Geothermal Potential of the Cascades, the Geothermal Synthesis of Dixie Valley, Nevada Current research on temperature logs for climate change, the stability of methane hydrates along continental shelves, co-production and distributed geothermal generation Well logging with high precision Temperature-Depth measurements Sample analysis of Thermal Conductivity measurement for commercial clients The Lab assists the public through: Our Power Plays conference, Geothermal Energy in Oil and Gas Fields K-12 classroom materials A monthly newsletter on the geothermal, oil/gas, and energy industries Research and travel updates on our blog Publications and papers for those interested in learning more |