A NASA scientist has spoken out about the true threat of super volcanoes and the risky methods that could be used to prevent a devastating eruption. Lying beneath the tranquil and beautiful settings of Yellowstone National Park in the US lies an enormous magma chamber, called a caldera. It's responsible for the geysers and hot springs that define the area, but for scientists at NASA, it's also one of the greatest natural threats to human civilization as we know it.
Brian Wilcox, a former member of the NASA Advisory Council on Planetary Defense, shared a report on the natural hazard that hadn't been seen outside of the agency until now. Following an article published by BBC about super volcanoes last month, a group of NASA researchers got in touch with the media to share a report previously unseen outside the space agency about the threat Yellowstone poses, and what they hypothesize could possibly be done about it.
"I was a member of the NASA Advisory Council on Planetary Defense which studied ways for NASA to defend the planet from asteroids and comets," explains Brian Wilcox of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology. "I came to the conclusion during that study that the supervolcano threat is substantially greater than the asteroid or comet threat."Yellowstone currently leaks about 60 to 70 percent of its heat into the atmosphere through stream water which seeps into the magma chamber through cracks, while the rest of the heat builds up as magma and dissolves into volatile gasses. The heat and pressure will reach the threshold, meaning an explosion is inevitable. When NASA scientists considered the fact that a super volcano's eruption would plunge the earth into a volcanic winter, destroying most sources of food, starvation would then become a real possibility. Food reserves would only last about 74 days, according to the UN, after an eruption of a super volcano, like that under Yellowstone. And they have devised a risky plan that could end up blowing up in their faces. Literally.
Wilcox hypothesized that if enough heat was removed, and the temperature of the super volcano dropped, it would never erupt. But he wants to see a 35% decrease in temperature, and how to achieve that, is incredibly risky. One possibility is to simply increase the amount of water in the supervolcano. As it turns to steam. the water would release the heat into the atmosphere, making global warming alarmists tremble.
"Building a big aqueduct uphill into a mountainous region would be both costly and difficult, and people don't want their water spent that way," Wilcox says. "People are desperate for water all over the world and so a major infrastructure project, where the only way the water is used is to cool down a supervolcano, would be very controversial."So, NASA came up with an alternative plan. They believe the most viable solution could be to drill up to 10km down into the super volcano and pump down water at high pressure. The circulating water would return at a temperature of around 350C (662F), thus slowly day by day extracting heat from the volcano. And while such a project would come at an estimated cost of around $3.46 billion, it comes with an enticing catch which could convince politicians (taxpayers) to make the investment.
"Yellowstone currently leaks around 6GW in heat," Wilcox says. "Through drilling in this way, it could be used to create a geothermal plant, which generates electric power at extremely competitive prices of around $0.10/kWh. You would have to give the geothermal companies incentives to drill somewhat deeper and use hotter water than they usually would, but you would pay back your initial investment, and get electricity which can power the surrounding area for a period of potentially tens of thousands of years. And the long-term benefit is that you prevent a future supervolcano eruption which would devastate humanity."Of course, drilling into a super volcano comes with its own risks, like the eruption that scientists are desperate to prevent. Triggering an eruption by drilling would be disastrous.
"The most important thing with this is to do no harm," Wilcox says. "If you drill into the top of the magma chamber and try and cool it from there, this would be very risky. This could make the cap over the magma chamber more brittle and prone to fracture. And you might trigger the release of harmful volatile gases in the magma at the top of the chamber which would otherwise not be released."The cooling of Yellowstone in this manner would also take tens of thousands of years, but it is a plan that scientists at NASA are considering for every super volcano on earth.
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I see multiple possible issues with it. One of them which is most intriguing is that if the heat in the volcano is generated in different way that scientists think, it may actually increase beyond engineering parameters of the plant, and make a beautiful catastrophe. Currently the heat in the volcano is thought to be from 2 sources: radioactive decay of elements, at a set rate, and latent heat from times when Earth came to be. If some of alternative theories are right (for example the electric universe theory), then heat may come from other sources (like interaction with space objects, or increased rate of radioactive decay), and may rise in a way impossible to predict.
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It took them 13 (!!!) years to decipher it...You have to brake down the pattern etc...
It was an S.O.S. signal coming from the Andromeda Galaxy that's next to ours (the Milky Way) and it was 80,000 years old (!!!) ; That number also fits the pattern.
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Martyn Unsworth, professor of physics and earth and atmospheric sciences at the University of Alberta claims "Yellowstone tends to have a major eruption every 600,000 to 700,000 years. These numbers were determined by ash deposits aged using geochemical and radioactive dating. That means another one might not be far off. The last one was about 600,000 years ago. I can’t call that a prediction, but some would say it’s a cause to be concerned about the next one coming”.
This sounds like to me the NWO globalists are just too damn impatient, not wanting to wait for this catastrophe to happen naturally since it could catch them off guard, therefore becoming victims of their own greed.