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If the President revoked the 1970 act to develop yellowstone park to power the whole country with clean geothermal energy, that would be a _____ thing.
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9 upvotes, 9 comments. Yik Yak poll by Anonymous in US Politics. "If the President revoked the 1970 act to develop yellowstone park to power the whole country with clean geothermal energy, that would be a _____ thing."
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Can the Yellowstone Supervolcano Be a Geothermal Energy Source?

www.nationalgeographic.com

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Anonymous 19w

this is practically impossible

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Anonymous 19w

I’m thrilled that I can no longer see comments from Tesla guy because I told him “we heard you the first three times you posted this” and got blocked

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Anonymous 19w

Geothermal good, developing Yellowstone bad

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Anonymous 19w

Yellowstone isn't renewable! Hope this helps!

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 19w

plus drilling into a supervolcano is certainly not risky at all 😂

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 19w

He never shuts the fuck up.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 19w

The reality is that America is not running out of sources of energy. There’s geothermal in plenty of places other than Yellowstone. Southern Oregon and California has tons available. And we can already power everything with nuclear, we just don’t have the facilities built. It’s more about creating the infrastructure as a whole than needing to exploit something like Yellowstone.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 19w

Because it’s practically impossible, drilling into a supervolcano is incredibly risky and could lead to catastrophic hydrothermal explosions or volcanic activity. The underground fluids at Yellowstone are highly acidic and filled with minerals that quickly destroy typical drilling equipment. There are better alternatives to expand geothermal without touching Yellowstone

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 19w

I… agree with you?

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