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The mountain has a point.
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Geothermal use steam to generate power tho, and active volcanoes is quite risky to build a high cost power plant because we wouldn't know when it will erupt. Also active volcanoes might be too hot for the job.
How hot is too hot tho? Doesn't more hot just mean more energy?
Also, could you locate the electricity generating parts away from the volcano itself and just conduct the heat from the hotzone itself far enough away to still draw the heat out of the system without posing an infrastructure risk to the system?
I really wonder about the potential to basically turn volcanic hot zones into batteries and just suck the excess heat energy that makes them dangerous out of them. It seems like the biggest untapped source of power we have at our disposal next to the sun and all the forces it drives.
Nuclear reactors and geothermal power plants both simply boil water to push steam through a spinning turbine to make energy. That's literally it. There's no other way to utilize that heat in a safer or more efficient way.
It just boil water to create steam to spin the turbine, too hot will harm the equipment quicker.
Yes, they already been doing it, either close (but not too close) to volcano, or in a place where the earth crust is thinner(which is still near volcano), but never on the volcano itself. It's one of the location specific renewable energy.
Also we don't just turn heat to electricity, we use heat to boil water to create steam to generate electricity, the source of heat is what different between power plant, like for example coal, incinerator, nuclear, and sunlight, all are just to boil water.