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>Another hydrothermal explosion has rocked Yellowstone National Park, only 100 feet from the pool that spectacularly blew in July 2024. The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory confirmed that a hydrothermal explosion occurred around 5:09 a.m. June 13. When geologists went to evaluate the area the next day, they found a 21-foot-wide pool filled with boiling, silty water, a 60-foot fissure, and water spouting 30 feet into the air. It was an unexpectedly dynamic event in Biscuit Basin, which has been closed since a similar explosion occurred at nearby Black Diamond Pool in July 2024.

Archive: https://archive.today/UnOMW From the post: >>Another hydrothermal explosion has rocked Yellowstone National Park, only 100 feet from the pool that spectacularly blew in July 2024. The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory confirmed that a hydrothermal explosion occurred around 5:09 a.m. June 13. When geologists went to evaluate the area the next day, they found a 21-foot-wide pool filled with boiling, silty water, a 60-foot fissure, and water spouting 30 feet into the air. It was an unexpectedly dynamic event in Biscuit Basin, which has been closed since a similar explosion occurred at nearby Black Diamond Pool in July 2024.
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If this wasn't a national park, I'd bet someone would have, by now, tapped into this free heat to generate electricity like Iceland does.

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The general part of the country has a ton of geo-thermal. Not as much as it should probably but it is also surprisingly expensive to maintain and drill.

The Yellowstone area would probably be far more dangerous and not give a very good outcome due to how much activity there is. It's probably part of why Idaho has far more than WY has. It's still geo-active but not so fucky.

Geo is a lot more complicated than "drill a hole and put a pipe in it".

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I was thinking not so much at ground zero of ol Faithful, but further enough away to still tap into the heat.