Some simple facts

Let me explain this in simple terms that anyone should be able to understand. There is a large puddle of liquid energy in the middle of the country under Yellowstone National Park. When it erupts about every 650 to 800 thousand years. It shoots lava 15 to 30 miles high into the atmosphere. The last time it erupted was slightly over 650 thousand years ago. We may or may not be due for a major eruption. This is not science fiction but scientific fact. The energy is in the form of lava under a caldera contains under tremendous pressure and temperature with dissolved gases. When there is a large break in the crust of the earth the lava will shoot out like the liquid in a shaken up soda bottle due to the dissolved gases. Anyone that has opened up a soda bottle knows what I'm talking about. If we release the pressure from a soda bottle slowly there is no spray of soda and soda does not shoot out of the bottle. OK, This is scary stuff. But it doesn’t need to ever happen. This is an energy system. When the energy under the ground reaches a certain amount, POP, it will go off. Tap off the energy for constructive purposes and no problem. The problem is how do we tap off the energy and what do we do with it?

If we think of this a an energy system with massive amounts of energy locked under the ground as heat that can be used to power the country and forget about all the dooms day potential it makes good sense to tap the energy for no other reason than it’s there. If it delays or completely halts any possible volcanic eruption that’s even better.

There are many that know about the problem since I first proposed this idea some ten years ago. Some have developed reasons why we can't develop the technology to make it a reality. They say for example,

This comes from the "No solutions" group. They are the people throughout history that always say it can’t be done. Of course they’re right, man can’t fly, man can’t go to the moon, we can’t do these things they’re impossible. It’s just too hard to comprehend a solution.

It seems like a no brainier to me. We either use the energy and deplete the pressure build-up or sometime in the future, no one knows when, many will die. Every serious scientist agrees that eventually it will erupt, just not when. That's not really my point anyway. Not taking advantage of all this free and abundent energy resource at our disposal and doing nothing about it but trying to predict the time of the eruption just seems like stupidity to me. I really don't care as much about preventing the eruption as I do tapping into all the free wasted energy.