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   From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
     useapen wrote:   
      
   > Lava spews from the Sundhnúkur volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula near   
   > Grindavik, Iceland, on June 2, 2024.   
      
   It's not that big.   
      
   > CNN - Mount Tambora changed the world. In 1815, the Indonesian volcano   
   > exploded in the most powerful eruption in recorded history, sending an   
   > enormous plume of tiny sun-reflecting particles high into the atmosphere,   
   > cooling the planet and ushering in disaster.   
      
   It was far short of a "Super Volcano," many of which are active right   
   now.   
      
   Yellowstone is a super volcano.   
      
   But, yeah, a "Volcanic Winter" is a well understood phenomenon.   
      
   It's the same idea as a "Nuclear Winter."   
      
   The real question is sulfur. The more sulfur gushed out of an eruption,   
   the worse it gets.   
      
   > What followed was called the “year without a summer:” global temperatures   
   > plunged, crops failed, people starved, a cholera pandemic spread and tens   
   > of thousands died. Some even credit the volcano with inspiring Mary   
   > Shelley to write Frankenstein, while sheltering from unusually cold   
   > weather in Switzerland in 1816.   
      
   When Toba exploded roughly 74,000 years ago, it took over a thousand   
   years for the northern hemisphere to recover.   
      
   Toba is active right now.   
      
   > Many volcanoes have erupted since, but Tambora remains the planet’s most   
   > recent massive eruption. More than 200 years later, scientists warn the   
   > world may be due another.   
      
   There's a scale, like the Richter Scale, for volcanic eruptions. The   
   highest is a VEI8. There has yet to be one in all of the Holocene   
   though a number are active at present. It's not an "If" but a "When."   
      
   So humanity is staring down a frozen death brought on by a super   
   volcano, and the TV orders you to wet your bed in fright over the   
   planet growing slightly warmer, though still well within the earth's   
   norms...   
      
   > The question is not if, but when, said Markus Stoffel, a climate professor   
   > at the University of Geneva. Geological evidence suggests a 1-in-6 chance   
   > of a massive eruption this century, he told CNN.   
      
   If I were an evil European "Noble" or an ultra rich elitist, I would   
   see the intentional triggering of such a volcanic event as a great   
   way to "Reset" the planet, cleanse the earth of about 8 billion people   
   who don't matter.   
      
   It wouldn't be hard... almost low-tech.   
      
   Effectively there's a magma chamber, or gas chamber, building up,   
   building up until eventually the earth/rock above it can no longer   
   contain the pressure... *!BOOM!*   
      
   Just prick the balloon!   
      
   You wouldn't even need nuclear devices but that sure would make   
   things easier...   
      
   Set off two, at least, just to make sure you "Get" all us worthless   
   plebs.   
      
   We breed like roaches, or so they tell us, using up all THEIR oil   
   and other resources...   
      
      
   NOTE:  Yellowstone, if done right (and nobody alive knows how to   
   do it right) could power all the energy needs of the Americas!   
      
   Your classic nuclear power plant was (is?) nothing more than a   
   steam generator. The nuclear reactor produces heat, the heat produces   
   steam and the steam powers the generators, making electricity. So...   
      
   Tap into a Yellowstone, use THAT heat to generate steam and you have   
   the exact equivalent to a nuclear generator. Only you can build 50   
   or 100 -- as many as you can squeeze in. But...   
      
   Pop that balloon that is the Yellowstone Caldera and you end western   
   civilization for the next thousand years at a minimum...   
      
   This is true for all the "Super Volcanic" hotspots.   
      
   Unlimited energy at the cost of unlimited danger.   
      
      
      
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