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Renewable Energy

Volume 198, October 2022, Pages 415-425
Renewable Energy

Yellowstone Caldera Volcanic Power Generation Facility: A new
engineering approach for harvesting emission-free green volcanic
energy on a national scale

Author links open overlay panelThomas F. Arciuolo ^a, Miad Faezipour 
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Highlights

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    New and revolutionary engineering approach to clean energy
    production is proposed.

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    Scalable energy is produced using copper cylinders and computer
    science techniques.

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    Energy production from the Yellowstone Supervolcano prevents its
    future eruption.

Abstract

The USA is confronted with three epic-size problems: (1) the need for
production of energy on a scale that meets the current and future
needs of the nation, (2) the need to confront the climate crisis
head-on by only producing renewable, green energy, that is 100%
emission-free, and (3) the need to forever forestall the eruption of
the Yellowstone Supervolcano. This paper offers both a provable
practical, novel solution, and a thought experiment, to
simultaneously solve all of the above stated problems. Through a new
copper-based engineering approach on an unprecedented scale, this
paper proposes a safe means to draw up the mighty energy reserve of
the Yellowstone Supervolcano from within the Earth, to superheat
steam for spinning turbines at sufficient speed and on a sufficient
scale, in order to power the entire USA. The proposed, single,
multi-redundant facility utilizes the star topology in a grid array
pattern to accomplish this. Over time, bleed-off of sufficient energy
could potentially forestall this Supervolcano from ever erupting
again. With obvious importance to our planet and the research
community alike, COMSOL simulation demonstrates and proves the
solution proposed herein, to bring vast amounts of green,
emission-free energy to the planet's surface for utilization. Well
over 11 Quadrillion Watt hours of electrical energy generated over
the course of one full year, to meet the current and future needs of
the USA is shown to be practical. Going beyond other current and past
research efforts, this methodology offers tremendous benefits,
potentially on a planetary scale.

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Keywords

Power generation
Green energy
Emission-free
Volcanism
Steam turbine
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