[Rockhounds] Drillers break into magma chamber

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

Hi Pete,

Since a successful geothermal energy company found the magma chamber in  
their exploration, your pioneering research must have worked in the  
long run.

Time to stop wondering -- it works.

Take a bow.

Kreigh





On Tuesday, Dec 16, 2008, at 22:16 America/Detroit, Pmodreski at aol.com  
wrote:

> Hi again Kreigh,
>
> I just read this item you had posted.  I hadn't seen this anywhere   
> else yet.
>  Very cool!  Back in the late 1970s when I worked at Sandia  Labs in  
> New
> Mexico, the project we were working on was actually like this--to   
> explore the
> concept of drilling into a large, hot, magma chamber, and extracting   
> heat from
> it.  This was pretty "far out"--I don't know if it ever could  really  
> work;
> when you encountered magma like this, you'd have to just push it  out  
> of the way
> & keep drilling through it!  We never actually drilled  into anything  
> like
> this, though; but the lab did collaborate with the USGS in  the  
> research drilling
> into the Kilauea Iki lava lake, at that time mostly  solidified but  
> with just
> a little liquid lava still in its center.
>
> This paper was given at the AGU meeting in San Francisco; I'll be there
> (well, in Menlo Park), during the meeting this week, but I'm not  
> actually going
> to go to it.
>
>
> bye again,
> Pete
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 12/16/2008 7:22:44 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
> Kreigh at tomaszewski.net writes:
>
> It has  been described as a geologist's dream - a unique opportunity to
> study up  close the volcanic processes that built the Earth's   
> continents.
>
> Drillers looking for geothermal energy in Hawaii have  inadvertently  
> put
> a well right into a magma chamber.
>
> Molten rock  pushed back up the borehole several metres before
> solidifying, making it  perfectly safe to  study.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7780873.stm
>
>
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