Why can't volcanoes be cooled down? I mean, the weather experts can create aritfical rain, so why not this?

Question

Wouldn't it save millions of life if this could be done? I know this sounds silly but I was just wondering cos there are volcanoes that are just waiting to incinerate an entire population, and if there's an alternative to moving everyone out of its surroundings, especially in a metropolitan or densely populated city, I think it's worth the work.

I have to admit I don't know much about geology, so I really appreciate the detailed explanations cos I always thought that volcanoes were natural standalone structures, and didn't know it played such a vital role in the earth's ecosystem.

Answer 1

In order to do that, we would have to cool off the interior of Earth. We REALLY don't want to do that - it would eventually kill all life on Earth as we know it.

Volcanoes are important to life on Earth, because they add gases to our atmosphere. Ok, some of those gases are poisonous, but some of them are pretty vital, too! If we didn't have that, our atmosphere would eventually all leak off into space (which would be bad for obvious reasons).

Also, if Earth's interior cooled down, there would be no more earth quakes and no more plate tectonics. This would also be bad in the long run, as the (admittedly slow) process of plate tectonics is also vital to life on Earth.

Finally, if Earth's interior cooled down, it would solidify, and then there would be no more magnetic field. Earth's magnetic field protects us from highly energetic (read - damaging and lethal) particles from the solar wind, particles that could eventually kill life on Earth and strip our atmosphere (I'm not sure which it would do first).

So I must disagree with you - cooling down the volcanoes would NOT be worth the work, but would rather destroy our planet.

Answer 2

Volcanos do not kill millions of people. People actually very rarely are killed by volcanic eruptions, and major cities are almost never built on or near volcanos. Also - we are very rarely suprised by a large volcanic eruption. There are obvious signs when a volcano is about to erupt, including seismic activity and changes in the landscape.

As for the idea of cooling down volcanos with rain.... impossible. The other answers already explained why. In fact, even using every single drop of water on earth you could not cool the inner earth enough to stop volcanic activity.

I don't mean to sound condescending at all, but what you are suggesting is not possible or necessary.

Answer 3

Adding water would just cause a super heated steam explosion, because the fuel for the volcano is from the earth's molten core, you could never cool it, and if you did it could cause problems to the mechanism of our planet's function, on which all life depends, that scientists frankly do not understand beyond theory, evacuation from harm's way in times of danger is the only alternative. Or just don't live there at all. Artificial rain is not that easy, it takes manipulation under ideal conditions or worldwide droughts would not be threatening our food production.

Answer 4

The act of cloud seeding, or "rain making" is not as easy as it sounds. All the conditions have to be perfect and there has to be a legitimate cloud formed already, and ready to rain. Basically it only makes the rain fall a little sooner than it normally would and maybe a little more of it. Like a regular old thunderstorm. I found a cloud seeding website in less than 10 seconds. You oughta try looking some of this stuff up. It's rewarding.

Answer 5

The interior of a volcano is heated by the forces of friction and pressure inside the earth. These forces melt rock. These forces as so relentless and large that we simply have no capacity on the face of the planet to deal with them. Proportionally speaking, not far under your feet the earth is molten. We live on a hard cooled crust of rock floating on a sea of molten rock. Where this molten rock pushes out through cracks or tunnels in our crust are volcanoes. There is so much of this molten super-heated rock that if you drained all the oceans into a crack in the earth to cool it off, you would accomplish nothing but make a lot of steam.

Answer 6

It is part of the earths eco system.
Global warming? there has been a lot of under water volcanic activity that has been warming the waters thus... melting the ice.
Just like hurricanes are part of the earths air conditioning system.
Those who live near a volcano need to move otherwise Darwins theory goes into effect.

Hope this helps

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Yes, it sounds silly. As a comparator, tell the fire brigade not to use their hoses on a house fire, but just try using spit.

This, of course, ignores the unbelievable force that builds up within an active volcano.

Answer 9

the preasure in the Volcano would just ruin everything.

Answer 10

I think they should do it, but hey, it could be worth a try.