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Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a giant geothermal power plant?

constructionphysics.substack.com published 2023-04-25

It’s become fairly common knowledge that Yellowstone National Park, in addition to being incredibly beautiful, is sitting on top of an enormous supervolcano that catastrophically erupts every few hundred thousand years.

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