• ursakhiin@beehaw.org
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    6 months ago

    Iceland has 32 active volcanoes. Eruptions are fairly routine, there.

    I’m not saying this is safe or not. I’m just saying if any country in the world can tame a volcano, it Iceland.

    • jarfil@beehaw.org
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      6 months ago

      32 volcanoes, but how many of them are over a mile long? That’s rad af.

      Anyway, I wonder if drilling into the magma chamber won’t create a “path of least resistance” for when the volcano finally decides to erupt… doesn’t sound like a good idea to stay at the other end of such path.

      Then, with earthquakes and what not, how stable can they keep that bore hole?