stopping all volcanic eruptions

volcanism kills

One study estimates an average of $1 billion per year in property damage worldwide from volcanic eruptions. As with casualties, a few eruptions cause staggering damage, while most are much less destructive. The Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980 caused more than $1 billion worth of damage, mainly to the timber industry.

Volcanic eruptions are driven by a deep underground magma chamber, filled with superheated water.  That would vapourise there at atmospheric pressure.  But he still liquid, because of extreme pressure.

The small amount of steam in at the surface, fine is a low pressure reach to the open air.  And it is like a champagne cork being popped.  The water now boils!

And we get the release of massive volume of steam, with moltern lava in: no lava and we get an earthquake.

All steam driven!  So the answer is fairly obvious.  We use ground sonar around the dormant or inactive volcano, we then drill down to below the magma chamber, and get at the pressurised water.

At the surface we vent some of the pressure, and drive a steam turbine, so producing carbon neutral electricity.  As he gradually reduce the magma pressure, we render the volcano inactive.

At tectonic boundaries, we can locate pressurised magma chambers.  We drill down, and again vent the steam through a little steam turbine.  So we are generating carbon neutral electricity.

And now we prevent volcanoes and earth quakes!  So we make for a safer world, the loads of carbon neutral electricity.

We can even use this idea on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.  Where the old man or Skye was the sender of moltern lava forced up by geothermal pressure.  So deep in the earth, those are the most source of heat and there CPD water ideal for power generation.  Totally carbon zero.