The national park could power the entire continental U.S. with clean energy. Here’s why it remains untapped.
Geyser in Yellowstone National Park Ian Crawford, 2015. |
So in 2017, NASA scientists ran a thought experiment to see if they might be able to halt a future supereruption. The internal study led by Brian Wilcox, an engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, suggested drilling a series of wells around the perimeter of the park and pumping cold water down into the hot rock. The hypothetical solution would cool down Yellowstone’s magma chamber and prevent calamity.
As a bonus, the system would provide enough geothermal energy to power the entire country.
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