Loading ...undersea cables was sparked earlier by the ZH article on the Moroccan solar farm for the UK being cancelled. The maps showed the cable going close to the Spanish and French shores rather than straight across the Bay of Biscay. The reason I found was that dangling a cable in three miles of water makes it too heavy. Bearing in mind it has to pay out at an angle you might have four or five miles of cable, many many tons, just hanging off the back of the boat and it would snap. They can lay aluminium cored lines deeper than copper ones for that reason.
Better than getting crushed
Like I thought we probably would this am. We’re up about 2/3% in the early going. The dollar is down a little after the weak bounce Friday, rates down a couple bips. Hard to say if it will continue this way. Looks like the dollar wants to move up in the last hour or so.
Oil and Bitcoin flat. SM roaring ahead. Hard to imagine what that will look like when the Fed finally cuts. Probably a monster rally.
PM shares are steady.
I thought we’d be looking at a big dump last night. Glad we’re not, but there’s always time for that.🤔
Maya
That one in Iceland in 73 looked really bad and did swallow up homes but got the cattle out but then sadly no plans to where it could go had to put them down. I don’t know exactly what they did. I wonder if they could blow a path and down from the top of the volcano making a part lower where the overflow can follow down since it doesn’t blow up.
I wondered if custom and Pele had something to do with it. Other than they cannot control her lol If they know there is a path the lava goes guess just don’t build anything there. You know a lot more about them than me and never had a geology or any other kinda class on earth other than going to the beach with a few of them once and was interesting. I also won the bet as it was a northern Calf point Reyes beach with great white warnings no surfing and cold that it’s not gonna stop the surfers they’ll be there. And they were in their set suits. I saw a part of the land where it was moved and crossed in another direction over another peace of land. The epicenter of the early 1900 San Francisco quake.
I’m so clueless about it I don’t know what happens beneath where it comes from if it will leave a empty space someday or if thats just part of the missing space in my brain or if the core will cool at some point over it.
Goldi
Past attempts to divert lava flows have been spectacularly unsuccessful. Army tried bombing a flow of Mauna Loa approaching Hilo, with no effect. There’s just too much, too viscous, too hot. Damming it up with rock pile walls is only a small diversion. Lava flows around the wall and engulfs it anyway. At this point the government will not allow any attempts to divert lava flows because they have been proven pointless.
Understand that the entire southern half of the Big Island is composed of lava rock from Mauna Loa. So yes, there are quarries that bust up the rock for gravel road building. Large boulders used for seawalls, etc. The entire terrain here is like broken or poured concrete!
The northern half of the island around Mauna Kea is much older decomposed lava that forms good red soil for farmlands. Where you do find rocky materials from Mauna Kea, they are soft and crumbly, eons old and decomposed.
As for energy, yes! There are geothermal wells in the east rift zone just five miles from my home where the wells have tapped into old lava pockets that are still molten hot. They tap the high pressure hydrogen sulfide gas bubble and circulate the heat to turbines before re-injecting it back into the well. 20-25% of the electricity for this island is generated at the geothermal plant.
Hawaiian Electric once had dreams of exporting our geothermal to the neighbor islands, but inventing high voltage cables that would withstand the deep ocean pressure between here and Maui is a problem that has not been solved yet.