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December 20, 2008
"Like Jurassic Park for magmatic systems"
Engineers drilling a new hole at a geothermal plant on the slopes of Mt. Kilauea actually tapped into a pocket of hot molten magma. The drama of the event was probably less than you may have imagined. No volcanic gushers of white-hot liquid rock while John Wayne-like figures in hard hats run screaming for their lives. OTOH, "'This is the first time scientists have encountered magma in its true natural habitat,' deep below ground, says coauthor Bruce Marsh, a geologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore."
No word yet on whether LADWP plans to run power lines to Hawaii to tap this new source.
Filed under Science | permalink | December 20, 2008 at 05:21 PM
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