Ankita
Member • Feb 9, 2014
Generate Electricity from Lava Or Volcano - Is it possible?
Generating electricity from Wind, tidal waves, solar energy and what not has been discussed here before. I was just wondering if it is possible to generate electricity from Volcano or Hot Lava.
If we have an abundant source of heat, then it can be used to be converted into another form of energy - such as boiling water using Lava's heat, creating steam that will move turbines of a generator and thus create electricity.
Limitations:
Harnessing the heat from volcanoes is only possible and viable if it was a constant source. So, the volcano would have to be permanently active or at least the surrounding ground should be really high temperature.
Where is it being implemented?
So I googled it up and found that researchers based in Iceland had an encounter with producing power from molten lava. A geothermal borehole project in Iceland a few years ago accidentally struck magma - the molten rock that flows out of volcanoes - and it spewed superheated steam for two years.
The IDDP or Icelandic Deep Drilling Project has been drilling 5 KM Deep shafts for using the heat in the volcanic bedrock far below the surface of Iceland.
It just hit me that Lava or Volcano eruptions have the same potential as the Geothermal energy for producing power.
What are your thoughts on this?
If we have an abundant source of heat, then it can be used to be converted into another form of energy - such as boiling water using Lava's heat, creating steam that will move turbines of a generator and thus create electricity.
Limitations:
Harnessing the heat from volcanoes is only possible and viable if it was a constant source. So, the volcano would have to be permanently active or at least the surrounding ground should be really high temperature.
Where is it being implemented?
So I googled it up and found that researchers based in Iceland had an encounter with producing power from molten lava. A geothermal borehole project in Iceland a few years ago accidentally struck magma - the molten rock that flows out of volcanoes - and it spewed superheated steam for two years.
The IDDP or Icelandic Deep Drilling Project has been drilling 5 KM Deep shafts for using the heat in the volcanic bedrock far below the surface of Iceland.
It just hit me that Lava or Volcano eruptions have the same potential as the Geothermal energy for producing power.
What are your thoughts on this?
