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I don’t like places where hot stuff bubbles out of the ground, but Icelanders have no such issues. They’re now almost ready to start a new experiment that will drill right into a magma chamber. How do they know that this will not accidentally create a volcano? Let’s have a look.
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I performed a similar experiment when I went into my backyard and beat a hornet's nest with a broom handle. My doctor says I should recover in a week or two.
Ouch! Hope it gets better soon!
Lol
😂
Oh good lord, that's insane. Everyone know you should use the broom end for hornet's nests.
Beware the forbidden pinata !
You want Balrogs? Because this is how you get Balrogs!
Dammit, stole my comment.
But they might find mithril!
Some people actually believe they exist!😂🤪
Balrogs would be a great source of energy, just chain em to the bottom of a pool of water and tada, instant water boiling boi. Might need to feed them an oxygen supply...unsure if they need to breath air.
"If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster." (Hopi prophecy, from "Life out of balance")
But drilling deep holes in the cavities of the earth's crust, in different parts of the world, is not always related to the search for energy and riches.
It's not even "volcano" related.
It is directly related to summoning disasters.
Tartarus was the deepest region of the world, lower part of the underworld, where the enemies of ancient gods were locked.
But, of course, this is a scientific article about geothermal energy.
"You can witness supercriticality in my CZcams comments." I felt that....
I cackled when she said that!
@@skinslow75 it was so deadpan i had to rewind to check if i heard correctly.
Most places: "Don't open portals to hell!"
Iceland: "Is it warm there? Bring it!"
Did you hear "..water is piped through underground lairs" in Sabine's explanation of geothermal energy harvesting? 👹😈🔥💥🌩️🌬️💨 Pretty sure she meant "layers", but not 100% sure lol
Seems very unwise and risky
I guess they figured it wouldn't open a portal to hell since we already have that gas crater in Turkmenistan "Door to Hell".
@@Zeon7510 What's a little magma in Iceland, it'll just come up somewhere else may as well just drill it!
@@DonnaCsuti-ji2dd Unwise and risky? Who gave the men alcohol again?
"a bit of Magma may revolutionize your landscape" .. LMAO
The Dwarves delved too greedily and too deep
They also did it before a Krafla fire (70's or 80's) in the north at a shallower depth. The drill equipment was blown away during a mini eruption that lasted a few seconds . The small crater left was called "Sjálfskaparvíti " or "Self Creating Hell"
A more accurate (and better) translation is Self inflicted Hell.
They’re breaking the first rule of Minecraft: don’t dig straight down
We're playing modded tho 😁
Modding no bedrock is even riskier 😮
If this were a Hollywood movie, the recent eruptions on the same peninsula would be a direct result of this drilling. Except that the eruption would start immediately after the heros would learn about the failure
Hollywood already did that movie. Crack In The World starring Dana Andrews.
And then The Rock has to go save his family from the eruption. Everyone else dies
@@Klaatu2Too I bet they did!
But there would be that one scientist who warned them all from the beginning and would then not only find the solution to save the world, but also be in the team that implements it under deadly peril himself.
A bit of a point worth mentioning is that the composition of the magma chamber they discovered is rhyolite which is a more silica rich chemically evolved type of magma with relatively lower temperatures compared to basalt. Its around 2 to 3 times hotter than a conventional oven but only about half as hot as basaltic magma.
This kind of magma is the sort of thing that erupts from caldera building explosive and feared Yellowstone "supervolcano" just in a much smaller scale. While its likely Hollywood would completely miss this fact the hype link of the type of magma might be picked up to make the threat even more existentially large in scope.
The good and bad news is the pressure and high temperatures of the rocks around the magma chamber have a tendency to have the solid rocks flow/expand to fill the space cleared by a drill.
In a Hollywood movie this pressure aspect would obviously be neglected so the magma chamber would erupt in its entirely also the magma chamber would be massively scaled up with the explosive set being highly inaccurate in its depiction to favor special effects and spectacle in a way that their narrative heroes could seal the magma chamber somehow
Love the dry humor as always, but today’s “finding supercritical in my CZcams comments” line was especially a banger.
It also seemed to show genuine acceptance that of course her work will receive critique, and that’s much appreciated over other people who act hurt and persecuted when they present information that’s a bit contentious or inherently opinionated (even if quite extensively informed).
Wrong. Just WRONG. The comments here are hardly what we can call "supercritical". You are exaggerating and you are so dumb. Open a book sometimes, huh? (😉see what I did there)
What contains a magma chamber is the pressure produced by the weight of the rock above it. It's not really constrained by whether there are tiny holes in overlying rock, so it's OK to calm down. If there is enough overpressure to create an eruption, the magma will make its own cracks and holes in the overburden. Nothing we can do would stop it. A hole drilled to the magma chamber will release local fluids (gas + liquid), but it should be possible to stop such a flow by refilling the hole.
One very minor quibble about the video is that Iceland is a bit different from the rest of the Mid Atlantic Ridge in that it also sits on what's usually referred to as a mantle hot spot. These places (e.g. the island of Hawaii) have unusually high amounts of primordial He-3 in their evolved gases. I've measured noble gases from some of the Iceland geothermal fields.
He-3 is in short supply. Perhaps a business opportunity…
So it's a "he-he-he"?
@@tcf_iceland Michael Jackson has entered the chat.
Pumping heavy mud down the drill pipe overcomes crazy pressures that will be swabbed out later
Is any of the helium captured?
Supercritical water is employed extensively in the synthesis of ultra-high quality quartz crystals. At ultra-high temperatures and pressures, water transitions into a supercritical fluid state where it can dissolve substances like quartz, which is insoluble in water at room temperature. By placing quartz fragments in a chamber capable of sustaining high pressure and temperature, along with water and a small amount of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), the quartz begins to dissolve. This process facilitates the dissolution and subsequent recrystallization of quartz into high-quality crystals. Annually, a significant quantity of these crystals is utilized in the manufacture of quartz timing circuits, which are indispensable components of modern telecommunications. This method of quartz synthesis leverages the unique properties of supercritical water to produce crystals with exceptional purity and structural integrity, making them highly sought after for their precision in timing applications.
Why is the sodium bicarbonate necessary?
Mother Nature has done this in Mexico in a very hot cave.
How much does the process cost? Is it only used for quartz?
@@rob.j.g
I made millisapphires in ambient pressure in my microwave oven from tiny aluminum foil strips soaked in saturated sodium bicarbonate solution inside a glass jar.
@@solconcordia4315 The carbonate is a mineralizing agent that speeds up the dissolution and lowers the temperature at which it occurs to about 350°C.
@@rob.j.g You could build a basic hydrothermal quartz growing assembly for under $5000. Higher pressure and higher temperature can do the same thing with emeralds and rubies. Those need to be custom made.
That’s a hell of a way to make smores!
I can see the instructional video now…
Buy marshmallows
Buy hersheys chocolate
Buy graham crackers
Drill hole to centre of the earth…
Then Bjork starts singing
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@@DinorwicSongwriterEeeeemooootionaaaal laaandscapeeess they puzzzleeee meeee COOoOOOoOonnnfuuuuused!
@@guilhermealveslopes czcams.com/video/p0mRIhK9seg/video.htmlsi=DLNxQh3XpXZIUiFn
When I saw the video title the first thing I thought was "bring the marshmallows"😂
Iceland: "Þetta reddast!"
Roughly translated: "It'll be fine!"
She'll be right' says the kiwi...
@@geoffhemmings6546 No worries!
Hi Sabine!! Big fan from Iceland (technically from the North Pole), can't believe you're talking about home!
I worked in the physics dept of the icelandic energy authority and we had Kröflu (Krafla) as base camp for "transient electro magnetic (tem)" measurments.
Fun fact, I may have accidentally short circuted a 12v battery when returniing it back into its casing after soldering, sparks everywhere and I got so scarred I had to call the power plant safety team to come and laugh at me.
In my defense, I'm a polar bear, what can they really expect?
😂😂😂
Did the Vikings introduce polar bears to Iceland?
Or did you swim there on you own?
@@andywomack3414 I think they usually just come over on icebergs. Immigration isn't too fond of them, unfortunately 😕
We need a research grant to explore 'MAGA Energy Bore Holes', and harness them to do something actually constructive.
@@andywomack3414 No they introduced them to 12v batteries
If the chance of creating a volcano is rather low, increasing the local seismic activity is guaranteed. This may not bother a scarcely populated area like Iceland, but this was the reason why a similar project was dropped in the already seismic island of Ischia.
"My drilled magma holes are hotter and deeper than yours" - some icelandic nerd, probably
Don't do this. I allready have problems of Googling black holes on library computers and I am not searching for porn.
That's what she said.
Superinteresting video again, I admire the icelanders, using the potential of their country, take the risk and don´t give up despite setbacks. They produce a lot of alumnium for the global markets with their excess thermal and hydro power even today, and though that has its environment problems, it might be a good idea to bring the enegy intense production to the energy source in many cases.
supercritical commenters - 😂- this channel is gold and Dr. Sabine is a diamond.
I just love their mission statement "For a Safer and Sustainable Future".
The only reason nothing happened in the earlier experiments is that they did not hit the magma chamber. Thus, the outcome was nothing more than loss of equipment and dented ego.
If they manage to hit the magma chamber spot on, it will not end with the loss of some replaceable machinery.
An additional note is the magma chamber in question is rhyolitic a higher silica chemically evolved type of magma which makes it more viscous and less hot than fresh basaltic magma.
The pressure of the hot rocks in question actually helped reseal the chamber because under the heat and pressures encountered the solid rocks flow into the hole as its being dug. I'm curious what solutions they will have found to keep the hole open as this has been what made most deep drilling operations fail since the hole seals itself up once you remove the drill bit.
6:58 because I don't like hot stuff bubbling out of the ground. 😂❤
This channel is one of my hardest subs, like if I had to pick 10 channels to keep, this one would be on the list for sure. I love the wholesome German snark, and the topics, and the solid data. Great stuff.
As a retired geologist I'm with you about trying to tap into a active magma chamber on a island that sits atop one of earths most active hot spots, it's great their trying to expand the knowledge base for living and profiting from their island biggest economic assets but it's also Iceland biggest threats as well. Scientific Research is much needed but not at the risk level this project brings along with it.
I'm also a retired geologist, and I think this is fascinating stuff, and not as dangerous as Sabine and others may think. The really explosive volcanos tend to be those associated with subduction zones, where the earth's mantle has 'swallowed' crustal rocks often containing carbonates. This generates CO2 which is supercritical at the temp & pressure at depth, but if driven to the surface by gravity, the unloading of pressure can cause a sudden transition to gas under pressure, blowing the top and unloading deeper layers which also turn to gas, and so on in an avalanche effect. (Mt St Helens in recent times).
But the volcanos on or near the mid-ocean ridges are far from subduction zones and their magma has lower levels of CO2 that would be supercritical and cause a danger. The danger is not zero: H2O is present, and probably SO2, but without the large amounts of CO2 the danger is greatly reduced.
@@davidinkster1296 Yes, outside of a very local area its hardly dangerous. Once a magma chamber erupts its most likely going to self block the bore hole. (I'm not a geologist but have done a bit of work on geothermal and hydrothermal sites.) If the magma decides to leave that chamber, there is nothing practical that engineers can do to stop it. And similar there is little chance engineers can trigger its departure.
Similar thing happened in my country... Back in 1991 they drilled a few holes into the heart of a particular mountain and they stopped after they announced that she was too cold to provide geothermal energy.
Well apparently Pinatubo took it real personally and erupted violently - second largest eruption of the 20th century, lowered global temperature by a degree C for two years afterwards.
"And I'll fuccking do it again!"
OMG I love Sabine's mind and wit/ sense of humor. Great big hugs!
Deep drilling should be set to become much cheaper very soon due to a new type of drill-bit using microwave heating rather than a cutting bit. This will allow far deeper holes without needing to pull up the drill to change the bit. So geothermal will very possibly become a much more abundant source of energy for all of us no matter where we are located.
One of these concepts uses microwaves to generates the heat while the waveguide functions as the main piping system to deliver the heat producing wavelengths. Argon purge gas cleans and cools the borehole while simultaneously ejecting rock particles to clean the drilling pathway. So they are using argon (a gas) to remove the particles, which is normally done by drilling mud that is used to ALSO CONTOL BLOWOUTS AND STABILIZE HOLE. What could possibly go wrong ¿
One of the companies that is working on this stated that this has been worked on for 15 years and might be useful by the late 30s. Also they would use conventional drilling for the first 3 miles and then employ their microwave drilling when it gets too hot for traditional equipment. But they still haven’t drilled a real world well yet but hope to have equipment available for a test “this decade”. Maybe you have heard of a more successful company.
@@Mentaculus42 Thanks for that. I did hear of a company that certainly gave the impression that they were more advanced along that path but I forget the name. Maybe they were exaggerating their claims!
Thanks
Maybe not so bad if we could intentionally cause eruptions by drilling into the magma: you have at least some chance of controlling the time and place where the eruption occurs instead of just not knowing anything and just waiting what will happen. In Grindavik for example it could have been good if they could have released magma/pressure at a location of their choosing, somewhere away from the houses and where protective berms would have been set up in advance. You could evacuate the place for a week, drill and release the pressure and have a much higher chance of saving the houses than just waiting for months for what random place the next eruption will occur.
One drill hole is €79M. How many homes and industries (with a finite remaining useful life) would be saved for that money?
And what if the resulting eruption harmed the drill crew?
99 out of 100 gonna bite off more than they can chew😂
that's a good idea. I was wondering why they don't just use the heated gases blasting out of the drill hole? I'm sure that's a reliable source of heat energy, just not as good as direct magma
@@timgerk3262 The magma is closer to the surface in Grindavik, so if it cost 80 million to dril and set up some explosives I guess I need to start a drilling company.
Ragnorok!
It's spelt Ragnarök.
"A little bit of magma may revolutionize your landscape." 🤣🤣🤣
You may notice that nobody who actually works in IT security will recommend VPNs as a security measure unless they work for a VPN company. I get that they have to pretend their service isn't primarily for avoiding regional restrictions, but that is the only genuine function they serve.
Now, to be sure, the security benefits of a VPN in terms of "someone's stealing my data!" are mostly overstated - there's still ways to trick browsers into sending plain http, or hijacking DNS, etc. there's plenty of legitimate reasons to use VPNs, such as piracy if you live in a country that enforces that, bypassing geoblocks, or ISP enforced restrictions (which are much more common than you think).
First thing I did when I moved into my student house was to set up a VPN at my parents' place, because the ISP for some crazy reason routes all traffic through the UK, and thus obeys all UK enforced blocking rules. And there's a lot of them.
Thank you.
Strangely enough, my first reply doesn't appear. Anyway, VPNs DO protect from quite a large range of attacks, such as DNS hijacking, or if the connection is downgraded to HTTP. And that's not even mentioning the geoblocking/ISP blocking bypass. If you think that's not a realistic threat, then you have no idea just how easy it is to clone a public wifi. Heck, even private ones can be cloned, but usually that's a lot harder.
Try watching BBC's iplayer from outside the UK, or listening to Japanese web radio outside Japan and tell me how it's useless.
The whole world doesn't revolve around your use case or lack of computer security knowledge.
2:38 I'm just here for the supercritical comments. Don't let me down!
Okay, as a Software Engineer, VPNs provide an 'access point' of a different geolocation. They dont actually provide extra security or prevent tracking or anything like that. Basically, the reason companies use them is to make the devices on their network appear in the same location, so if any device not on that vpn or at the location tries to access the network, it is obvious yhat it doesnt belong there, so it gets denied. They dont add any extra security to a user, arguably unless you have your own vpn service, youre simply paying a third party to track your internet traffic instead of your ISP which you already pay and is already tracking your traffic. Its a double edged sword. Some vpns claim to not keep logs etc, or sell data, but if weve learned anything from 'data breaches' thats also untrue...be weary of VPNs.all your internet traffic running over https is already encrypted, the vpn doesnt make it more encrypted or more secure..they track whatever they want to track. Im not sure where this whole secure your internet access with vpn xyz came from, but it is infact bogus.
VPNs still let you prevent you are in another country and bypass geo restrictiona
If I had been a consultant many years ago to a spy agency such as NSA, I would have suggested they covertly start or invest in VPN companies, to make it easy to monitor the communications of millions of internet users.
@@KeinNiemand sure, that's an 'access point' through one of the VPNs servers, it's all still tracked though.....
@brothermine2292 exactly, this is most likely the case, they may even all be...who knows..
The question is: Do you trust the VPN more than your ISP? If you do, perhaps because you live in China, then a VPN might make sense for you.
If not, the only real use case is bypassing geo restrictions. Which only works when just a few people are doing it, otherwise the streaming services will make efforts to block VPN IP addresses.
I just listened to a whole playlist of Qrueen for the first time and this probably led me to this video because you use the song for subbing in a video related to anything pressure-related.
You did a great job explaining this. No hyperbole and kept it on simple enough terms for anyone to understand.
They didn't learn you should never dig straight down.
might even find ufos
These guys need to watch the Jon Pertwee Doctor Who story "Inferno" lol.
You beat me to it 😂
@@Albert_the_Albatross great minds think alike!
I love the way you put out all the facts and points with such a straight face. Me, I would be in Hysterics over drilling into a magma chamber.. Glad all that is happening in Iceland while I live in Tasmania, Australia!!!
Keep these fascinating videos coming
Super cool video Sabine! Talk about a totally hot topic for discussion! 👍👍💥💥
Pretty... explosive idea, I'd say... 😬
Thanks, Sabine! 😊
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Ich liebe Ihren Humor Frau Hossenfelder. Informativ und lustig ist eine fantastische Kombination.
I’m a geologist. This is exciting research - up there with the mantle samples collected last summer. Thank you for sharing it with your audience!
very nicely introduced your sponsor :D ... and I agree completly on hot stuff bubbling out of the ground
Hi from iceland
Hello from Germany!
As long as they don't send the samples by having a volcano blow them through the atmosphere towards us it will be ok, otherwise it will be like: Your sample has been "shipped"! A few minutes later: BOOOOM a hot steamy lava rock lands on your head straight through the roof. (Then you realise why it was free shipping hahahaha)
Not that kind of volcano.
@@filonin2 I know hehehe
I live walking distance from the 2018 lava flow that happened in Hawaii. No thanks on the magma samples. I've had my fill.
Amazing information, thanks for sharing.
Nice that you included a quick geography lesson at the beginning of the video, so that your American viewers know where Iceland is located in the world 😅😂
Speak for yourself.
@@guymann4016 it's a joke
Fair enough. I appreciate it, cause like, 'murica
@@Mattfreeman89 merica, greatest country on the planet, has one of the worst education systems.
@@23strawbale me not know enough 2 confirm ore deny
I can relate to that drilling project. When I was about 11 hrs old my best friend Joe and I dug a hole in my mom’s back yard. It was about 4 feet across and 3 feet deep. We spent days on that hole. We would sit in it and admire the dirt and roots. We could jump into it and climb out of it hours on end, but the day did come when we did backfill out master project. The only “trouble” we ran into were big roots. There’s a lot of roots in the ground! I can only admire the Icelanders ambitions.
I did similar things when I was only ~ 40,000 hrs old .
You sir are most definitely a prodigy .
😊
Don't worry, Icelanders took precautions centuries ago by deforesting the whole island with sheep herds. There are no big roots in Iceland, not even probably in the few patches that have been reforested in recent years.
@@LuisAldamizAh, I see. The next obstacle i would expect to encounter would then be rocks. Over the years I have found many rocks in the ground.
@@wanderingquestions7501 - That's almost certainly beyond sheep capabilities of destruction. I'd pray to the jotunn to erode them so your journey to the center of the Earth is comfy and easy.
"I don;t like places where hot stuff bubbles out of the ground..." The queen of understatement. 😂
I ❤ Sabine's newer humor and enthusiasm more and more. That Teutonic cynicism with a zest of British witticisms: very contagious. It even makes publicity more digrstible. Keep on with that vein of funny energy!!
I you fear vulcanoes breaking out, just drill next to one that is already leaking. The one case where homoeopathy makes sense.
Sabine has got some good jokes, like the "at hat temperature I would also jump" and " supercritical, which you can witness in my youtube comments." 😂
You are the best! Thank you for producing such interesting shows with information that I trust.
🧙🏻♂The Icelanders delved too greedily and too deep 🔥👹🔥
Thank you Sabine for your videos i love them and there extremely informative.
. they're = they are
I believe there's also some studies into using CO2 as a supercritical energy bearer, which could work at lower temperatures. Also an underrated aspect imo is that geothermal drilling can provide a way out for all workers with drilling erpertise who currently stuck working for fossil fuel extraction cooperations.
I read a few years back that drilling holes near hotspots like in Iceland or Yellowstone, and pump water in them to harness the energy, could actually cool them down and prevent future disasters. If done right.
Better get back to reading, plenty of scientific work is being done in yellowstone, it is monitored every minute of every day, what is potentially under there could wipe out 1/3 of america .. and parts of the world could be blacked out for near on a year..
Love your humor :) excellent video :)
I have long had deep interest in earth science, have been educated in college on that (and many other subjects) and find this presentation deeply interesting.
If I had the opportunity to work on or directly observe this project I would do so, as long as I was being paid.
Maybe if I were rich I would pay to watch.
I look forward to knowing more, and hope Professor Hossenfelder finds the time to give us an update.
Hi Sabine, I'm surpised how well you mix humour and science into a fine concoction that makes viewing highly enjoyable and educational. Keep up the great work and hope to see you with your own BBC program one day!
Why do you think so little of her that you think she'll end up at the BBC? She's got decades before dementia.
Thankyou Sabine!
Good!
Quite apart from I bet if the Icelanders don't try nobody else will, we really could do with finding out what happens when you drill in to a volcano.
eg: At some point some unhappy volcanologist will report something like "There is a 90% chance of a super-eruption at Campi Flegrei in the next two weeks." As that will mean the end of Europe and Western Asia along with modern civilisation everywhere, it will be desperation time.
-If drilling in to an active volcano means a 100% chance of inducing an eruption then we all get to cross our fingers and wait.
-But if doing so is safe enough and might release sufficient pressure to delay or prevent and eruption, then there would be nothing to loose.
Moving 2 cm/year means Iceland has been pulled apart by about 22 1/2 meters since it was first inhabited.
Yes, they even speak different dialects on each of the parts now
Yeah it sounds very miss leading in relation to what earth actually regurgitates even during one 50 year life span .
Like this new island its millions of acres around earth that is unrecognizable today for me. Places I visited as a child with radically different geological terrain.
There are tourist attractions in Iceland where you can view the huge fissures created by the separation of the plates. I’ve seen videos. It’s quite impressive.
@@edwardlulofs444 i just did some rough bad math of mid Atlantic trench 25,000 miles long ×2 cm = 200,000 New acres of land . Its a lot of mixing and filtering going on there underwater lol
Sure sounds much different talking about that as opposed to some slow creeping crack .
In some million years it will become a whole continent.
The gigantic ongoing mud volcano in Indonesia that is consuming farmland in every direction is much more scary to me!
Why would you farm around a volcano.
I call that overpopulation.
@@DR_1_1 Super fertile land in a relatively poor country.
Clever and interesting! Thank you
Outstanding, thanks for the information
Having been to Iceland several times, I can confirm that today’s Icelanders are simply the result of 40 generations of survival in an environment that does not reward Olaf-Scholzism.😅
I see what you did
Hoffentlich wirst du scholzism/merkelism nicht irgendwann vermissen, es gibt hier Menschen/Schwachköpfe die gerne 90 Jahre in die Vergangenheit reisen würden.
😂
I must admit I am fascinated by this idea. Discovering more about what's deep under us is almost impossibly difficult but also hugely interesting and I can't wait to hear how it goes.
It's pretty easy with seismology and other techniques.
Recall the Beyond-Petroleum's Deepwater Horizon gas well explosion in the Gulf of Mexico? It was months later that a second hole was drilled to plug up the exploded hole. The drilling crew could see very well deep undersea and underground with probably magnetic sensors (because the drilling pipes are probably made of steel for high strength).
Very profitable. The wealthiest people on the planet do this for a living, and they live extremely well.
There could be fortunes made from this project as well.
It's all about the Big E.
@@filonin2 Well, maybe not that easy, a lot of work goes into obtaining and interpreting that data. And apparently seismology (I assume that was done) did not reveal the presence of a shallower magma body.
Drilling holes is data collection as well. I guess the stuff blowing out of the holes can be considered samples.
Why don’t you go stand next to the hole while they’re drilling it? You can share your unbelievable enthusiasm and serve as kind of a coach to get everyone as enthusiastic? This way you will also know what’s happening as it is happening! Good luck my friend!
If my memory serves me right I believe that it was I this area the drilled a hole for a geothermal power plant and things got very bad.
As the drill went down they hit a pocket of steam that had an enormous pressure. The hole exploded and created a crater that was 100 meters in diameter and the drilling equipment was found 3 kilometers away. Luckily there were no fatalities. The islanders have a name for the crater. They call it “heimskafti Viti” or “homemade hell” in English. I may have written the name wrong in islandic but I am not from Island.😊
Iceland is a striking landscape inhabited by courageous and welcoming people. I hope you can find the courage to visit, Sabine. It's well worth the travel, if only for the local ice cream.
Ice cream? Say less. I'm in.
Are old enough to remember the Climate change documentary with Leonard Nimoy 1979
Hey, maybe we should try that in Yellowstone! The energy we'd produce might well power whatever is left of the nation afterward.
Yellowstone doesn't have enough melt to erupt.
Threw my wife into an Icelandic well and she became supercritical. Physics explains relationships. Love your dry wit.
I love your dry humor. Thanks.
It seems metal drills would soften so much that they could not drill into a magma chamber.
Dig into magma, who would have thought we will start the year with such dwarf fortresse energy.
Kinda hope it doesn't get too much !!FUN!! though.
Then we find at large scales it breaks plate tectonics and kills the planet lol
Breaks plate tectonics? I think that only happens here if you remove enough heat to solidify the mantle.
super excited for what we're gonna learn from this endeavor.
Thank you for the video.
A few years back someone had a plan to drill into the Yellowstone supervolcano. I said then, and I say again... "if this pressurized balloon of fire pops, there will be devastation... so do you *really* want to poke it with sharp sticks?"
Funny, Iceland is currently working out a plan to do just this. Poke holes in an active maga chamber.
Wow CZcams is messed up, this comment section was in a Russel Brand video. Thought it was a bit strange…
yes for science !
there is a scary conjecture going round that this is what happened to Mars with the whole outer layer blowing clean off like a champagne cork ... some of this Mars layer may even be lodged in Jupiter causing the constant storms ...
@@support2587 Haha, I ran into that problem too several times.
Sometimes it would happen if I didn't scroll down far enough to load a video's comment section when wanting to click Like on the video.
Perhaps it was attempting to load in while I switched to the next video and then the new video loaded in the old comment section that was internally set up to load.
I saw water go supercritical once when we had to cool off a sidewalk that had turned to glass due to a down 440,000 volt high tension line. When we hosed the glass the water just exploded and vanished without steaming at all.
You always make me laugh with your humour details. Thank you very much!!!
Love you Sabine. You are just about the only person I know who can actually think.
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00:00 🌋 *Introduction to Iceland's plan to drill into a magma chamber*
- Icelanders plan to drill into a magma chamber for an experiment.
- Iceland's geological position on the Mid Atlantic Ridge makes it prone to frequent volcanic activity.
- The country has a history of geothermal energy production, covering a significant portion of its energy needs.
01:22 🔍 *Challenges faced during previous drilling attempts*
- The Iceland Deep Drilling Project encountered difficulties in drilling into a magma chamber.
- Unintended encounters with magma damaged equipment and led to the shutdown of the drilling.
- Despite challenges, the pursuit continues due to the potential for supercritical geothermal power.
02:43 🌊 *Explanation of supercritical water and its significance*
- Supercritical water, occurring at high temperatures, enhances energy transport for more efficient power production.
- Geothermal plants with reservoirs reaching supercritical conditions can dramatically increase power output.
- Previous attempts worldwide faced challenges, but Iceland aims to achieve this with its deep drilling project.
04:05 🛠️ *Krafla Magma Testbed and future drilling plans*
- The Krafla Magma Testbed involves drilling two holes, one near the magma chamber for measurements and samples.
- The second borehole will drill into the magma chamber to test the potential for a supercritical geothermal power plant.
- Despite risks, the project aims to contribute scientifically and technologically to understanding magma and harnessing geothermal energy.
05:54 ⚠️ *Challenges and potential of geothermal energy worldwide*
- Geothermal energy has immense potential globally, but finding hot spots and drilling into them is difficult and expensive.
- Concerns include emissions during power plant operations and uncertainties about deeper drilling techniques.
- Geothermal energy may be a valuable local source but is unlikely to become a primary global energy supply.
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- Introduction to NordVPN as a tool for securing internet connections.
- Emphasis on privacy protection, threat prevention, and bypassing content restrictions.
- Special offer for viewers to use NordVPN, with additional features like NordPass and NordLocker.
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Sebek -- I've been using Nordvpn before it became fashionable or just easy money for CZcamsrs. It's reliable, fast, and has a server in almost every country.(For some reason there's no server in Russia anymore.) Before VPN for individuals, I ran a Proxy Server -- a lot of work. Before Nord, tried others. Nord is one of the best and it is easy to use.
I don't see how drilling to the magna chamber can be done without drilling equipment being consumed.
Yet we make steel at those temperatures... Engineers can be quite clever, if the economic incentives allow them to be creative.
Agree@@richdobbs6595
Microwaves
@@richdobbs6595 At those temperature steel becomes semi-liquid and loses its rigidness
@@abelgarcia5432 Sure, but other materials such as speciallized ceramics don't. And we build rocket combustion chambers that deal with this, and we are trying to build fusion reactors.
I love your content and especially when combined with your dry humor. Nothing supercritical here!
Great video, very informative and hilarious at the same time.
Compared to how much is being spent on fusion energy which is still perpetually 20 years away, this seems cheap.
I have no problem with your using NordVPN. What i have a problem with is your lying about what NordVPN does for you in order to receive money from them. A VPN simply moves the point of exposure from your local ISP to your VPN provider. Whether you can trust your VPN provider more than you trust your ISP is up for debate; usually your local ISP must adhere to relevant local laws, while your VPN provider may be situated anywhere in the world. And a VPN doesn't protect you from attacks the sites you visit may perform against you.
It's not just your ISP. Your packets could go through 5, 10, even 20 different servers, all of which can see your full source and destination addresses (required for routing). With a VPN, all they see is the VPN node addresses. The routing info for the ultimate source and destination is encrypted.
@@alchobum Yes, an eavesdropper on your local network, if that is what you mean by "they", cannot see the source and destination IPs; the data being transmitted these days are almost universally encrypted anyway, however, so that isn't really saying much. Instead, the operators of the VPN get to see the source and destination IPs, and they are not inherently more trustworthy than potential eavesdroppers on your local network, or your ISP. Sabine's spiels consistently oversell what the VPN can do to protect you and your privacy, and she does it for money. At least in this video she makes slightly more conservative claims than she has in the past, so that's something. But the correct thing to do is what Tom Scott did, and that is to focus on the ability to make your requests appear to originate in a country of your choice in order to subvert IP-based restrictions on access, and stop making claims that the VPN will protect you from malware or malicious web sites.
@@TheAntibozo packets cannot be routed if the server does not have access to at least the final destination address. Also, packets can be routed through many servers outside your local network, and they all need the addresses. Only the data is encrypted in regular traffic. A vpn packet hides that, providing only vpn server addresses.
That the vpn ops crew can see the ultimate addresses is a separate problem.
@@alchobum I don't think you understood what i wrote. Yes, i know how routing and tunneling work. A VPN hides the source and destination IPs of the tunneled traffic, as i said. That is just not very important in most cases. That the VPN operators can see the tunneled address is not a separate problem; it is the problem that i pointed out in the first place: the exposure is shifted to the VPN provider which may be an organization ungoverned by the same privacy laws that would apply locally. In Germany, in particular, this should be of concern, since German privacy laws are quite strict.
always enjoy your videos cheers Dan
Another great presentation 😂
This is just what the internet needs! An unconventionally hilarious pretty scientist lady picking up comic topics for discussion.
Interesting stuff, and I appreciate your sense of humor 😀
If the magma''s density is enough higher than the material above it, it isn't likely to come up in the borehole. If it were much lower, it would already be coming up through the ground.
Very interesting. Again, as always.
Sabine. You’re my “go-to” for plain speaking science. Thanks.
I don't know which I like best? the science or the sense of humor.
Your humor ist simply wonderful.
As an American, I'm fully willing to take the chance that it could create a volcano.
Of all the Scientists on CZcams, You by far are the best. Compelling informative and funny too. I cannot get enough of your content.