Umm, I just want to know what happens when you drill into an active volcano. I'm really impatient and hate it when a video takes ages to get to the point.
1:43 what are you talking about? The IDDP-1 drillhole hit magma all the way back in 2008, and now they are only doing it again, but on purpose. Also, magma was drilled into at Kīlauea starting with the Kīlauea Iki eruption as far back as 1959, for many years until 1988, and then again also in 2008 (big year for drilling into magma), while drilling for the Puna Geothermal Field. Magma has also been drilled into at Menengai Caldera in Kenya twice, between 2011 and 2014. The KMT (Krafla Magma Testbed) is just following in the footsteps of these projects and trying to better harness the energy.
Thanks for the comments. Script should have probably been more clear what "drilling into magma successfully" means (i.e. without getting the drill bit obliterated and the hole blocked). This video talks about the 2008 IDDP-1 drilling at 8:04 and for the sake of simplicity and story I tried to keep this focussed on Iceland. Appreciate the feedback.
People don't seem to understand they don't have to pump lava or drill into molten rock. They only need to perfect drilling into extremely hot rock for a geothermal loop to produce unlimited steam. But rock this hot has it's own serious problems that need to be overcome for useful drilling, and this is a step in that direction.
Pressure blowouts happen at oil fields all the time, under much less pressure. A magma chamber is an exponential increase in PSI. I would not want to be around the drill site.
A magma chamber and a hydrocarbon reservoir are two totally different things. There have been two documented examples of boreholes intersecting magma pockets. All that happens is that a small amount of magma enters the borehole and quickly cools and solidifies..usually resulting in the drill string becoming stuck.
to add: thinking it through, lava would/could not come out of the ground unless you had tremendous amounts of pressure, air/gas what else could it be, to make tons of rock, solid or liquid, its rock, and weighs tons, the pressure at hand must be.., magma. lastly, i cant see magma as underground lava and model our subsurface ideas from that like everyone seems to do. it looks cool huh.
While a drill hole 30,000 feet deep is so narrow as to make the idea of a magma blow-out remote, it is well to study the example of diatremes. Basically a mile wide hole hundreds of miles deep through the crust into the mantle, it is proportional to these deep wells. I asked a geologist what it would be like to see a diatreme erupt, and he said "you would die"
Having watched this, I can't help but wonder if we might someday be able to tap the magma cells that lie beneath the Yellowstone Caldera. Not only would the generation of unbelievable amounts of power be possible, but it might also reduce the tremendous pressure that makes the Caldera so dangerous.
@@AdamZimmerman-c6i Not necessarily. As you draw heat out of the nearby rock, that formation slowly lowers the temperature of the lava, increasing its viscosity and making it less prone to flowing. As the gases contained in the lava cool they also exert considerably less force, down grading the eruption potential. The amount of energy in a cubic mile of molten rock is too large to ignore as a resource to produce reliable energy production. It is the future.
This is actually cool because these approaches were never used before and the unlimited amounts of energy were right there all the time below our feet, I believe that this approachment has a lot of potential for the generation of electricity for us humans. Even if you guys can pour tap water in the water well and have the volcano heat it up to produce steam you guys can have a steam engine running in no time 24/7
I remember in the 60's in grade school and we would get My Weekly Reader and we would get excited when the roll of papers would arrive at school. I remember them doing a story on Iceland and tapping into the geothermal energy. One of the main issues was we did not have any material capable of withstanding the high temperatures and corrosive nature of the water as it would eat up the drill bits and piping. A lot of research went into ceramic drills and pipes that would be immune to the corrosive nature of the superheated water. I had several years worth of them stashed away until my brother burned them up out of spite. I contacted them and asked if they (maybe) transposed them onto microfiche (this was LONG before computers and high speed printers) and I would have GLADLY paid for copies. But, alas, no one thought to preserve them in paper form or microfiche. And I can hear the younguns asking "What was a microfiche"? Probably get the same reaction if you talked about "overhead transparency projectors". A long gone era.
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VOLCANOLOGY 101 Lesson: mantle plumes. Educator: Prof. TheErik249 Stratovolcanoes consist of anedicite, dacite, and rhyolite magma. They're higher in silica. This makes them more explosive. This typically occurs when the magma chamber has intruded upon a ground water source, or a groundwater source has intruded upon the chamber or the region between the chamber and the cone. Water can not be compressed, so it boils and creates pressure that can not be contained by the rock. The result is an eruption. Iceland doesn't have any stratovolcanoes. There is no subduction occurring underneath Iceland. Iceland is a basalt formation sitting on the mid-Atlantic divergent plate boundry. Magma rises at this point and then moves in opposite directions to the east and to the west. But there is another source at work here. The Iceland hotspot. Magma rising from the outer core lower mantle boundry. It is theorized that the Iceland mantle plume is connected to a super plume that also feeds the Jan Mayan archipeligo plume and the Greenland plume. A simple test of the magma effusing from any one fissure on Iceland will indicate that the magma is very low in silica and very high in sulfur dioxide and iron. Plus, its ambient temperature is approximately 2100°Fahrenheit (1150°C), which is a clear indicator of mafic/basaltic magma. ONLY mantle plume hotspots effuse mafic magma that pours like water. The cooled magma becomes black and brittle. Afterward, long-term, the rock begins turning red as the iron oxidizes. Then, it begins crumbling into tiny fragments of reddish brown rubble, eventually becoming sand and then sandstone. But that hasn't happened on Iceland. WHY NOT??? Because it sits on a divergent plate boundry that has been very busy for about 210 million years. Plus, the hotspot is feeding this region freshly produced mafic magma directly from the core. It is theorized that this super plume is the very same plume that caused the Permian-Triassic extinction 251 million years ago and created the Siberian traps large igneous province. 🤷The more you know🤷
@AngryGecko1010 . There are no stratovolcanoes on the island of Iceland. There is no subduction occurring underneath Iceland. Iceland sits Upon A divergent plate boundary. It is referred to as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. From the point that both of these plates meet the North American Plate to the north all the way down to the Antarctic plate, these plates are producing oceanic plate and diverging to the East and to the West. Mantle plume theory is a new theory in volcanology. Geoscience recognizes mantle plume theory, while volcanology is still apprehensive about accepting this Theory. Iceland was produced by a mantle plume hotspot. All you have to do is take a sample of the magma when it reaches the surface and becomes lava. It is low in silica and high in sulfur dioxide. It's referred to as mafic magma. It rises from the outer core boundary through the lower mantle and the upper mantle and then distributes through a hotspot on the surface of the crust. There are 17 known active mantle plume hotspots on Earth currently. Hawaii and Iceland being the most active. It is confusing when both of the volcanoes that you mention have Ash eruptions. What you are witnessing is magma encountering groundwater which has to expand and cannot be contained because water molecules cannot be compressed. The highly pressurized water molecules explode violently destroying in vaporizing The Rock. At that point is when you will witness an ash column rising out of a vent.
Let’s see if AI mentions the fact that once Iceland perfects this procedure, we will be able to do this anywhere on earth because there’s always heat deep underground. We don’t have to hit magma to produce energy. Better than Solar better than wind better than wave, it is a completely incessant energy source.
Maybe. Contrary to the claims in the video, magma releases a lot of pollution when the pressure is reduced. How the pollution load from producing such geothermal power would compare to wind/wave/solar energy is unknown to me. There may be some articles somewhere on the subject. Of course, it is not necessary to drill into magma to produce geothermal electricity. Water becomes supercritical a temperature far below that of even "slushy" magma - assuming superciticality is desirable.
@@buggsy5i agree especially for your last point. no i actually agree for the whole thing you just said. out of curiosity, are you like a lecturer or something?
The amateur geologist in me definitely feels that something like this would be a fascinating idea. after all getting rock samples that deep. And maybe being able to do various spectrum analysis and such. At the same time I definitely can see where there would be a great deal of danger. However, the people that are worried about the blowout thing either are not aware of or just not listening to the possibility that this has already happened in things like oil wells, or even geothermal type stuff. Now it is likely that when they finally hit the bottom, they will probably have to do so with all personnel very far away just in case it does pop. But at the same time this actually might be a beneficial thing. Think of it is almost like a pressure relief valve on the side of a water heater. If the pressure in a water heater builds up to a certain point, there’s a valve that will open and allow the pressure to escape. Maybe this hole that they’re going to drill could have the same benefit for this volcano. Yes, it would still mean a form of eruption but maybe just maybe it can relieve the pressure enough so that the main I guess you could say opening doesn’t go up or something. Honestly, something like this if it works may be way for us to not predict when eruptions take place or stop them. But maybe mitigate their damage. After all, we can control mother nature, but we can, kind of work in tandem with her.
AI makes this very simple for you as a creator I would imagine. I would imagine that it knows the rules for writing a short. As a writer, I can imagine it being able to pull off a beautiful presentation like this. I found this presentation to be quite clear and concise. These are qualities I admire and often find lacking on TH-cam.
Iceland is a dream location for me. The people seem so nice and pleasant. Living simple and clean lives. The landacape is absolutely stunning too. I wonder what it would take to relocate there?
Geothermal is the safest and cheepest energy source to be had. Pluss they don't drill into the magma? That would be inposeble to contain. What they do is drill two aligning holes and blast a chamber out between them a long ways from any magma. Lots of these already exist, and im not sure what these scientists are trying to accomplish beyound what's already been done.
In the Vulcano drilling you can be get an a benifits into it by installing an a steam turbine and creating a abundant energy first attached a inconell pipe to the water passage and the output of that is the high pressure steam to rotate the high pressure turbine to rotate the Generator
This idea was explored in the 1952 scI-fi movie The Forbidden Planet. It would be great if the energy extracted could reduce the chance of super volcano explosion.
15:00. It is great to reduce Fossil Fuel use, HOWEVER, there are just so many active volcanos and cities located near the volcanoes. How practical is this for use around the world? How many countries can truly afford the upfront costs to set up the processing plants and other equipment needed as well as wiring to have the cities actively use the thermal power? See, you answered your own questions.
The trick is to drill into an inactive volcano in then expectation of relieving the pressure at some future date. I think Yellowstone will be the best place to start now for the future of mankind.
This is all bullshit. This project had already started in 2000 - and they are repeating it now. They don't drill into magma chambers but use the heat of the hydrothermal system, although the borehole reaches depths of approx. 3 km.
It will behave like a backdraft when houses burn down and build pressure inside the house until someone opens the door and dies instantaneously. Because of the sheer amount of pressure that builds inside the house.
Only it's all bullshit. Check out by yourself. Google Iceland Deep Drilling Project! Then you will find out that nobody drilled into a magma chamber. The project started already in 2000 and the aim is to use the high temperature of the hydrothermal system.
Do you not understand how this all works? If we continue to change our atmosphere, burning fossil fuels, our planet will quit supporting life as we need it long before we will ever burn all the fossil fuels. The damage continues to worsen yet we still are hardly changing our illogical ways. A runaway greenhouse event will destroy civilization.
You have a valid point but once you have a working steam plant, the electricity can then power electric motors to do further drilling, thereby sidestepping the need for fossil fuels,
Your expansion figures are wrong.As provided by a book entitled power plant engineers guide; they state that at atmospheric water expands approximately 1700 times it's volume as steam. Even if they could it's a dangerous and dumb idea to consider drilling into magna. They don't need that hot a temperature to produce supercritical steam.
When you drill around an active volcano- one should expect a steam powered GEOTHERMAL ELECTRIC PLANT. Therefore there is no more need for fossil fuel to run the turbines isn’t it.
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4:47 Over millions of years? I suspect that number is greatly exaggerated or shall I say "Scientists baffled by (fill in the blank)" each time a scientific theory is vaporized by "new" information.
yeah that may work in iceland what about other areas of the world that doesnt have accessable magma chambers, or what happens when the earths internal composition changes the well blows out releasing lava, and toxic gases, this video is a plug for renewal-able energy
Question; if we tap into a lava chamber, & use its thermo power could that cool the lava to a point of harding? 2 why can't we drill into a Geizer, & harvest its thermo energy?
Seems to me if you drill metal into molten lava, you melt the metal. Releasing pressure with the drill through rock, the lava will use that channel to escape to the surface, melting the rig and a good share of the country on top. Hints in the video say drills Have met lava, but no clue what happened after that. Worth a new Vesuvius?
The word geyser is not pronounced gazer. it is pronounced by Americans Guy Zur GUYZER that's how it's pronounced not spelled the English call it geezer and that's pronounced GEEZER they're both spelled GEYZER I don't know how you got gazer out of it gaser is one of the somebody who looks at something. if you uncertain how word is pronounced look it up in youtube there's a whole series of pronunciation for all English words now you can pick a cube between English or English-english or American English and usually the word explanation is the most lucky usually is the most correct answer.
The English word geysir comes from the original Geysir in Iceland which is pronounced the way this video pronounced it. Please look up the etymology of the word.
The only way to get through a magmachamber is using drills that will not send of an chemical reaction. In my opinion spread often crystals formed by magma can contain energy from a last heavy earthquake. This can be released if a chemical proces is activated and these crystals come to a meltingpoint again. A 0.5 earthquake could then easily give an earthquake of 3 or higher if the last big one would have been a 4 or higher on the Richterscale. A+B=C C:2=D Dx1, 4 = bew height of quake. So its all about knowing what was the last high quake and do you want to release this power with drilling. Water can give a quick chemical reaction so drilling with using water isn't the best methode.
@@buggsy5 research is what scientist are afraid of. Then they will find out we have banged up the wrong tree for almost 70 years. Darwin his research went already in this way. He did not how to bring it to the people. His first books was getting people ready for it.
@@buggsy5 Bugsy, Darwin was into volcanoes and finding crystals. What he had as conclusion weel we went of it. Now we are saying magma chambers or( tectonicplates for causing earthquakes) but if you take the next thing in counter: Earthquake in a magnitude 8 and higher are realeasing forces over multiply atombomb strength. If rocks are grinding they pulverized. So is this the true reason of high earthquakes. Its surtainly to be doubt. Gasses, pockets of it, can they reach this kind of reaction, its never seen. So if you take a look what you find all over the world, crystals, left behind when the earth was founded. As I looked over earthquakes and period of time befor the formula I am working with occured, it can happen after 40 minutes or after more then decades. So if you look at these facts you or at least I did was looking into crystals forming and deforming. And after I have done that a hole lot was suddenly to be explained. So looking with a different idea to logical problems can give another view. My lives motto is no problem as great as the basic.
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We don't need to add more heat to our surface in losses from extracted energy! We need to take the Sun's energy and convert it to work without adding net heat or gasses to our atmosphere that promotes increased surface heat!
There were trees on Iceland before the first people arrived, they and their sheep used up the woodlands and prevented regeneration. The forests of Britain were wiped out in the same way.
This area has been having eruptions like crazy over the last few years. I think it’s safe to say…. We have Zero idea what is going on under our feet. It’s all guess.
Yes, drill a hole or two and the gasses will erode the hole bigger and bigger until it blows and the lava will create new landscape around the facility. You drill into a vein, not into the bladder! Just like your body, poke it with a needle, blood will start coming out.. Gosh!
Harvesting Geothermal has long been doing by human. Many countries, on the Ring of fire, have experienced. They relinquish the idea because unavoidable problem. They extract heat from hot rocks, at the same time, melting rock in every channel pass will lose its energy, becomes solid and block all small channel. Later, lack from heat exchange fluid, those geos thermal will lose its efficiency bit by bit until close down.
With max pressure of 28 GPa, 4,061,056 psi. If man could not handle 8000 psi from the deep water well in the gulf what happens if hit 4 million psi at 2,000 degrees.
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There was a man-made disaster caused by drilling near a volcano. They created a mud volcano that destroyed their equipment. This idea is gambling with safety.
Iceland is basaltic lava. It is thinner and flows smoothly and relatively non-violent. Mostly producing smooth lava flows and gasses with very little ash. Yellowstone is rhyolite lava. It is thicker and stickier and tends to erupt in the violent eruptions that produce the large ash cloud. They also create the pyroclastic flows, like those that wiped out huge areas around Mt. St. Helens. Drilling Iceland would be like opening a bottle of soda. Drilling Yellowstone would be like opening a bottle, that has been sitting in your car on a hot summer day, after it has been shaken.
Umm, I just want to know what happens when you drill into an active volcano. I'm really impatient and hate it when a video takes ages to get to the point.
Watch in fast fwd. Its what I do lol
But he actually never gets to the point
Ok click bait then…thanks,thumbs down
They dont know. There are so many problems with this idea, its comical.
What happens in 2026? We will know when the time comes.
1:43 what are you talking about? The IDDP-1 drillhole hit magma all the way back in 2008, and now they are only doing it again, but on purpose. Also, magma was drilled into at Kīlauea starting with the Kīlauea Iki eruption as far back as 1959, for many years until 1988, and then again also in 2008 (big year for drilling into magma), while drilling for the Puna Geothermal Field. Magma has also been drilled into at Menengai Caldera in Kenya twice, between 2011 and 2014. The KMT (Krafla Magma Testbed) is just following in the footsteps of these projects and trying to better harness the energy.
Thanks for the comments. Script should have probably been more clear what "drilling into magma successfully" means (i.e. without getting the drill bit obliterated and the hole blocked). This video talks about the 2008 IDDP-1 drilling at 8:04 and for the sake of simplicity and story I tried to keep this focussed on Iceland. Appreciate the feedback.
People don't seem to understand they don't have to pump lava or drill into molten rock. They only need to perfect drilling into extremely hot rock for a geothermal loop to produce unlimited steam. But rock this hot has it's own serious problems that need to be overcome for useful drilling, and this is a step in that direction.
Pressure blowouts happen at oil fields all the time, under much less pressure. A magma chamber is an exponential increase in PSI. I would not want to be around the drill site.
seeing what pressure must be being released and moving liquid rock. wet concrete on fire.
It is not a sleeping volcano. Volcano's that erupt regularly do not tend to explode, they work more as valves.
A magma chamber and a hydrocarbon reservoir are two totally different things.
There have been two documented examples of boreholes intersecting magma pockets. All that happens is that a small amount of magma enters the borehole and quickly cools and solidifies..usually resulting in the drill string becoming stuck.
to add: thinking it through, lava would/could not come out of the ground unless you had tremendous amounts of pressure, air/gas what else could it be, to make tons of rock, solid or liquid, its rock, and weighs tons, the pressure at hand must be.., magma. lastly, i cant see magma as underground lava and model our subsurface ideas from that like everyone seems to do. it looks cool huh.
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all the roads to blue Lagoon just got overrun with lava and it was completely evacuated yesterday I think, June 8, 2024
Pretty crazy what's going on near Grindavik. I recommend following www.youtube.com/@JustIcelandic to get the latest updates on the situation.
Great links
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"The science that will come from the project will be nothing short of groundbreaking."
Nice. Very nice.😊👍
Ground erupting more like.
While a drill hole 30,000 feet deep is so narrow as to make the idea of a magma blow-out remote, it is well to study the example of diatremes. Basically a mile wide hole hundreds of miles deep through the crust into the mantle, it is proportional to these deep wells. I asked a geologist what it would be like to see a diatreme erupt, and he said "you would die"
In Iceland, scientists there are drilling into volcanos on a mission to locate a reliable heat source for boiling their morning coffee.
You can actually burry dough in the ground and it'll bake your bread: www.atlasobscura.com/articles/iceland-hot-springs-bread
Having watched this, I can't help but wonder if we might someday be able to tap the magma cells that lie beneath the Yellowstone Caldera. Not only would the generation of unbelievable amounts of power be possible, but it might also reduce the tremendous pressure that makes the Caldera so dangerous.
Yes! We need to defuse the risks! No more mass extinction events either!
Or it could have the opposite effect and destabilize the magma chamber causing a full-blown eruption
it also raises concerns about the stability of the caldera and the risks associated with altering the natural pressure dynamics.
@@AdamZimmerman-c6i Not necessarily. As you draw heat out of the nearby rock, that formation slowly lowers the temperature of the lava, increasing its viscosity and making it less prone to flowing. As the gases contained in the lava cool they also exert considerably less force, down grading the eruption potential. The amount of energy in a cubic mile of molten rock is too large to ignore as a resource to produce reliable energy production. It is the future.
Small point British Airways 747 referred to at 11:15 did not 'glide in to land' after engines failed in ash cloud. Pilots got the engines restarted.
Thanks for the correction 👍🏻
BA Flight 009 didn't glide to land safely, once out of the cloud they restarted all 4 engines and subsequently landed safely at Jakarta on 3 engines.
I remember that on tv report
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"Drilling into the future" metaphorically by drilling into the past, literally
This is actually cool because these approaches were never used before and the unlimited amounts of energy were right there all the time below our feet, I believe that this approachment has a lot of potential for the generation of electricity for us humans.
Even if you guys can pour tap water in the water well and have the volcano heat it up to produce steam you guys can have a steam engine running in no time 24/7
1. Geyser is pronounced "g - ee - zer", not "gay-ser"
2. Iceland did have forests, but the Vikings used them for boats.
Here's the real definition of playing with fire💀
Seems like curiosity is going to kill the cat, once again
I remember in the 60's in grade school and we would get My Weekly Reader and we would get excited when the roll of papers would arrive at school. I remember them doing a story on Iceland and tapping into the geothermal energy. One of the main issues was we did not have any material capable of withstanding the high temperatures and corrosive nature of the water as it would eat up the drill bits and piping. A lot of research went into ceramic drills and pipes that would be immune to the corrosive nature of the superheated water. I had several years worth of them stashed away until my brother burned them up out of spite. I contacted them and asked if they (maybe) transposed them onto microfiche (this was LONG before computers and high speed printers) and I would have GLADLY paid for copies. But, alas, no one thought to preserve them in paper form or microfiche. And I can hear the younguns asking "What was a microfiche"? Probably get the same reaction if you talked about "overhead transparency projectors".
A long gone era.
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Thanks for this - one small note - If you have an f before a voiced consonant or vowel, that f is pronounced [v]. The f in Icelandic is a nightmare ;)
Thanks for the feedback! I'll try to remember :)
@@newnaturechannel oh - and for krafla, you have the fl sound, [krap:la] upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e0/Krafla_pronunciation.ogg/Krafla_pronunciation.ogg.mp3
VOLCANOLOGY 101
Lesson: mantle plumes.
Educator:
Prof. TheErik249
Stratovolcanoes consist of anedicite, dacite, and rhyolite magma.
They're higher in silica.
This makes them more explosive.
This typically occurs when the magma chamber has intruded upon a ground water source, or a groundwater source has intruded upon the chamber or the region between the chamber and the cone.
Water can not be compressed, so it boils and creates pressure that can not be contained by the rock.
The result is an eruption.
Iceland doesn't have any stratovolcanoes.
There is no subduction occurring underneath Iceland.
Iceland is a basalt formation sitting on the mid-Atlantic divergent plate boundry.
Magma rises at this point and then moves in opposite directions to the east and to the west.
But there is another source at work here.
The Iceland hotspot.
Magma rising from the outer core lower mantle boundry.
It is theorized that the Iceland mantle plume is connected to a super plume that also feeds the Jan Mayan archipeligo plume and the Greenland plume.
A simple test of the magma effusing from any one fissure on Iceland will indicate that the magma is very low in silica and very high in sulfur dioxide and iron.
Plus, its ambient temperature is approximately 2100°Fahrenheit (1150°C), which is a clear indicator of mafic/basaltic magma.
ONLY mantle plume hotspots effuse mafic magma that pours like water.
The cooled magma becomes black and brittle.
Afterward, long-term, the rock begins turning red as the iron oxidizes.
Then, it begins crumbling into tiny fragments of reddish brown rubble, eventually becoming sand and then sandstone.
But that hasn't happened on Iceland.
WHY NOT???
Because it sits on a divergent plate boundry that has been very busy for about 210 million years.
Plus, the hotspot is feeding this region freshly produced mafic magma directly from the core.
It is theorized that this super plume is the very same plume that caused the Permian-Triassic extinction 251 million years ago and created the Siberian traps large igneous province.
🤷The more you know🤷
Hekla and Askja are classified as stratovolcanoes
@AngryGecko1010 .
There are no stratovolcanoes on the island of Iceland.
There is no subduction occurring underneath Iceland.
Iceland sits Upon A divergent plate boundary.
It is referred to as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
From the point that both of these plates meet the North American Plate to the north all the way down to the Antarctic plate, these plates are producing oceanic plate and diverging to the East and to the West.
Mantle plume theory is a new theory in volcanology.
Geoscience recognizes mantle plume theory, while volcanology is still apprehensive about accepting this Theory.
Iceland was produced by a mantle plume hotspot.
All you have to do is take a sample of the magma when it reaches the surface and becomes lava.
It is low in silica and high in sulfur dioxide.
It's referred to as mafic magma.
It rises from the outer core boundary through the lower mantle and the upper mantle and then distributes through a hotspot on the surface of the crust.
There are 17 known active mantle plume hotspots on Earth currently.
Hawaii and Iceland being the most active.
It is confusing when both of the volcanoes that you mention have Ash eruptions.
What you are witnessing is magma encountering groundwater which has to expand and cannot be contained because water molecules cannot be compressed.
The highly pressurized water molecules explode violently destroying in vaporizing The Rock.
At that point is when you will witness an ash column rising out of a vent.
In theory
Let’s see if AI mentions the fact that once Iceland perfects this procedure, we will be able to do this anywhere on earth because there’s always heat deep underground. We don’t have to hit magma to produce energy. Better than Solar better than wind better than wave, it is a completely incessant energy source.
Maybe. Contrary to the claims in the video, magma releases a lot of pollution when the pressure is reduced. How the pollution load from producing such geothermal power would compare to wind/wave/solar energy is unknown to me. There may be some articles somewhere on the subject.
Of course, it is not necessary to drill into magma to produce geothermal electricity. Water becomes supercritical a temperature far below that of even "slushy" magma - assuming superciticality is desirable.
@@buggsy5i agree especially for your last point. no i actually agree for the whole thing you just said. out of curiosity, are you like a lecturer or something?
a bore hole is like a vent. that is why pots for boiling water have holes on the covers. volcanic eruptions are due to over built up pressure.
just imagine if all our war money was directed to initiatives like this, where we would be?
we would be slaves after loosing war
Conquered
I’m going to guess you are a female and young by how stupid that comment was
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The amateur geologist in me definitely feels that something like this would be a fascinating idea. after all getting rock samples that deep. And maybe being able to do various spectrum analysis and such. At the same time I definitely can see where there would be a great deal of danger. However, the people that are worried about the blowout thing either are not aware of or just not listening to the possibility that this has already happened in things like oil wells, or even geothermal type stuff. Now it is likely that when they finally hit the bottom, they will probably have to do so with all personnel very far away just in case it does pop. But at the same time this actually might be a beneficial thing. Think of it is almost like a pressure relief valve on the side of a water heater. If the pressure in a water heater builds up to a certain point, there’s a valve that will open and allow the pressure to escape. Maybe this hole that they’re going to drill could have the same benefit for this volcano. Yes, it would still mean a form of eruption but maybe just maybe it can relieve the pressure enough so that the main I guess you could say opening doesn’t go up or something. Honestly, something like this if it works may be way for us to not predict when eruptions take place or stop them. But maybe mitigate their damage. After all, we can control mother nature, but we can, kind of work in tandem with her.
AI makes this very simple for you as a creator I would imagine. I would imagine that it knows the rules for writing a short. As a writer, I can imagine it being able to pull off a beautiful presentation like this. I found this presentation to be quite clear and concise. These are qualities I admire and often find lacking on TH-cam.
Good point! AI can get to a bad first draft maybe, but it still needs a human to perfect it.
Iceland is a dream location for me. The people seem so nice and pleasant. Living simple and clean lives. The landacape is absolutely stunning too. I wonder what it would take to relocate there?
Geothermal is the safest and cheepest energy source to be had. Pluss they don't drill into the magma? That would be inposeble to contain. What they do is drill two aligning holes and blast a chamber out between them a long ways from any magma. Lots of these already exist, and im not sure what these scientists are trying to accomplish beyound what's already been done.
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Brilliant move? What could go wrong? Well, be careful and best of luck!
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In the Vulcano drilling you can be get an a benifits into it by installing an a steam turbine and creating a abundant energy first attached a inconell pipe to the water passage and the output of that is the high pressure steam to rotate the high pressure turbine to rotate the Generator
When ever I hear the word "magma" I hear it in Dr Evils voice
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Great video. Very Informative. Thank you.
This idea was explored in the 1952 scI-fi movie The Forbidden Planet. It would be great if the energy extracted could reduce the chance of super volcano explosion.
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One word Noooooo I feel safer messing around with what’s left of Chernobyl than this
Truly groundbreaking!!!
15:00. It is great to reduce Fossil Fuel use, HOWEVER, there are just so many active volcanos and cities located near the volcanoes. How practical is this for use around the world? How many countries can truly afford the upfront costs to set up the processing plants and other equipment needed as well as wiring to have the cities actively use the thermal power? See, you answered your own questions.
Why drill? There are active volcanos there, grab a dipper and have fun! Plus, bits will melt looong before hitting magma.
The trick is to drill into an inactive volcano in then expectation of relieving the pressure at some future date. I think Yellowstone will be the best place to start now for the future of mankind.
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2:58 geyser not gayser
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this is very cool
This is all bullshit. This project had already started in 2000 - and they are repeating it now. They don't drill into magma chambers but use the heat of the hydrothermal system, although the borehole reaches depths of approx. 3 km.
To avoid the erruption, by releasing the inner pressure.
That's easy : You melt your drill bits.
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It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.
It will behave like a backdraft when houses burn down and build pressure inside the house until someone opens the door and dies instantaneously. Because of the sheer amount of pressure that builds inside the house.
The drill bit melts
This is the best video I have ever watched. So educational and enjoyable. Bravo and thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Only it's all bullshit. Check out by yourself. Google Iceland Deep Drilling Project! Then you will find out that nobody drilled into a magma chamber. The project started already in 2000 and the aim is to use the high temperature of the hydrothermal system.
Fossil fuels are what make modern life possible it will never go away. None of this would be possible without fossil fuels.
Do you not understand how this all works? If we continue to change our atmosphere, burning fossil fuels, our planet will quit supporting life as we need it long before we will ever burn all the fossil fuels. The damage continues to worsen yet we still are hardly changing our illogical ways. A runaway greenhouse event will destroy civilization.
You have a valid point but once you have a working steam plant, the electricity can then power electric motors to do further drilling, thereby sidestepping the need for fossil fuels,
The core of magma is 12000 degree no material can withstand that temperature intact.
Fully degenerate matter can. so can a neutron star material. The central part of the metallic core of the earth is solid.
Water that flashes to steam expands 700% . Water coming into contact with magma creates steam explosion . GREAT IDEA !!!
Your expansion figures are wrong.As provided by a book entitled power plant engineers guide; they state that at atmospheric water expands approximately 1700 times it's volume as steam. Even if they could it's a dangerous and dumb idea to consider drilling into magna. They don't need that hot a temperature to produce supercritical steam.
When you drill around an active volcano- one should expect a steam powered GEOTHERMAL ELECTRIC PLANT. Therefore there is no more need for fossil fuel to run the turbines isn’t it.
Imagine the dispersal pattern of an oil gusher. Now, imagine that oil is hot lava. Bring an umbrella!
What happens?Mount Saint Helens had a drilling rig on the NW side before the eruption.Magicaly the photos to prove that have disappeared
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14:00 there is a problem with the car park today 22/11/2024
"Iceland's Blue Lagoon car park lost under lava"
4:47 Over millions of years?
I suspect that number is greatly exaggerated or shall I say "Scientists baffled by (fill in the blank)" each time a scientific theory is vaporized by "new" information.
Geothermal energy source is known hundreds of years ago.
Corrosion of the heat exchange pipes.
In New Zealand
yeah that may work in iceland what about other areas of the world that doesnt have accessable magma chambers, or what happens when the earths internal composition changes the well blows out releasing lava, and toxic gases, this video is a plug for renewal-able energy
2:49, 3:20, 7:08, 15:52 You're welcome.
Question; if we tap into a lava chamber, & use its thermo power could that cool the lava to a point of harding?
2 why can't we drill into a Geizer, & harvest its thermo energy?
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Seems to me if you drill metal into molten lava, you melt the metal. Releasing pressure with the drill through rock, the lava will use that channel to escape to the surface, melting the rig and a good share of the country on top. Hints in the video say drills Have met lava, but no clue what happened after that. Worth a new Vesuvius?
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The word geyser is not pronounced gazer. it is pronounced by Americans Guy Zur GUYZER that's how it's pronounced not spelled the English call it geezer and that's pronounced GEEZER they're both spelled GEYZER I don't know how you got gazer out of it gaser is one of the somebody who looks at something. if you uncertain how word is pronounced look it up in youtube there's a whole series of pronunciation for all English words now you can pick a cube between English or English-english or American English and usually the word explanation is the most lucky usually is the most correct answer.
Perhaps he's trying to pronounce it in the original language.
English: Oi, whats this geezer on about, guys a muppit innit? American: Geez pal, wise guys ah?
Geysir (wiki) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geysir
The English word geysir comes from the original Geysir in Iceland which is pronounced the way this video pronounced it. Please look up the etymology of the word.
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The only way to get through a magmachamber is using drills that will not send of an chemical reaction.
In my opinion spread often crystals formed by magma can contain energy from a last heavy earthquake. This can be released if a chemical proces is activated and these crystals come to a meltingpoint again.
A 0.5 earthquake could then easily give an earthquake of 3 or higher if the last big one would have been a 4 or higher on the Richterscale.
A+B=C C:2=D Dx1, 4 = bew height of quake.
So its all about knowing what was the last high quake and do you want to release this power with drilling.
Water can give a quick chemical reaction so drilling with using water isn't the best methode.
I don't know of any research that backs your claims in the slightest.
@@buggsy5 research is what scientist are afraid of. Then they will find out we have banged up the wrong tree for almost 70 years. Darwin his research went already in this way. He did not how to bring it to the people. His first books was getting people ready for it.
@@buggsy5 Bugsy, Darwin was into volcanoes and finding crystals. What he had as conclusion weel we went of it. Now we are saying magma chambers or( tectonicplates for causing earthquakes) but if you take the next thing in counter:
Earthquake in a magnitude 8 and higher are realeasing forces over multiply atombomb strength.
If rocks are grinding they pulverized. So is this the true reason of high earthquakes. Its surtainly to be doubt.
Gasses, pockets of it, can they reach this kind of reaction, its never seen.
So if you take a look what you find all over the world, crystals, left behind when the earth was founded.
As I looked over earthquakes and period of time befor the formula I am working with occured, it can happen after 40 minutes or after more then decades. So if you look at these facts you or at least I did was looking into crystals forming and deforming. And after I have done that a hole lot was suddenly to be explained. So looking with a different idea to logical problems can give another view.
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Thousands of scientific letters were sent to all parts of the world, warning them to stop the melting of the ice caps at the poles and the Himalayas, to reduce earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and terrestrial eclipses, and and and...
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We don't need to add more heat to our surface in losses from extracted energy! We need to take the Sun's energy and convert it to work without adding net heat or gasses to our atmosphere that promotes increased surface heat!
Yep off grid solar and wind here Australia works 4 me .
Solar airplanes?
There were trees on Iceland before the first people arrived, they and their sheep used up the woodlands and prevented regeneration. The forests of Britain were wiped out in the same way.
Interesting, TIL
This area has been having eruptions like crazy over the last few years. I think it’s safe to say…. We have Zero idea what is going on under our feet. It’s all guess.
Ive often woundered why we never made steam powered electricity with volcanic systems. Toungsten can handle the heat yes?
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Its been a long time since i saw a video with so much miss information, its like listening to the rambling of a crazy person.
It's free. But it costs a lot to get the infrastructure and knowledge. It's not free people.
Yes, drill a hole or two and the gasses will erode the hole bigger and bigger until it blows and the lava will create new landscape around the facility.
You drill into a vein, not into the bladder! Just like your body, poke it with a needle, blood will start coming out.. Gosh!
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Yellowstone has a caldera and supervolcano super eruption
What happens when too many holes are drilled??
It turns to cheese..
Harvesting Geothermal has long been doing by human. Many countries, on the Ring of fire, have experienced. They relinquish the idea because unavoidable problem. They extract heat from hot rocks, at the same time, melting rock in every channel pass will lose its energy, becomes solid and block all small channel. Later, lack from heat exchange fluid, those geos thermal will lose its efficiency bit by bit until close down.
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Freezing magma in a magma chamber is only temporary if at all possible and only momentary at best. 🤔
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These are people are crazy that do this!
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Remember "Project Mohole"?
Activate a volcano might be a drastic way to reverse global warming.
Made it sound like they're trying to build the CORE from Undertale but the reality is completely underwhelming.
Why not use a particle beam weapon to drill instead of a bit drill it takes the riffraff out of the way easier and doesnt melt.
With max pressure of 28 GPa, 4,061,056 psi. If man could not handle 8000 psi from the deep water well in the gulf what happens if hit 4 million psi at 2,000 degrees.
I just want to know if it can be used to vent Yellowstone and buy a couple thousand more years.
Abstract :
The energy that dominates the earth is very great, some of it is natural, like the heat of the sun and volcanoes, and some of it is human action, by cutting down trees, without replacing them and cultivating in their place...
There are five forces that control or dominate the planet...
1- The first theory (horizontal dynamic movement) and its end...
The occurrence of storms, rain, floods and snow, at unexpected times and places, is because of the expiration of this theory, which needs to be balanced...
2- The second theory (vertical dynamic movement) and its end...
This movement or force controls or dominates the earthquakes, earth cracks, drying up of rivers and lakes, earth openings, mountain collapses, and the emergence of drinking water springs on the ground...
It becomes out of control...
These phenomena increased due to the end of this theory...
The third theory: it is water that rotates the earth...
The fourth theory: the Earth's axis of rotation has tilted 2° degrees...
The fifth theory: The Earth has a new orbit...
These studies had completed and sent on July 26th 2000
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There was a man-made disaster caused by drilling near a volcano. They created a mud volcano that destroyed their equipment. This idea is gambling with safety.
Yes an incident in Indonesia in 2011 if I recall correctly.
The 2018 eruption on HawaII Big Island started close to the Puna Geothermal Venture. Just saying.
A test to see what the possible results of drilling into Yellowstone might be? Risky!
The Yellowstone site has little relationship to Iceland.
Iceland is basaltic lava. It is thinner and flows smoothly and relatively non-violent. Mostly producing smooth lava flows and gasses with very little ash.
Yellowstone is rhyolite lava. It is thicker and stickier and tends to erupt in the violent eruptions that produce the large ash cloud. They also create the pyroclastic flows, like those that wiped out huge areas around Mt. St. Helens.
Drilling Iceland would be like opening a bottle of soda. Drilling Yellowstone would be like opening a bottle, that has been sitting in your car on a hot summer day, after it has been shaken.