Lake of Fire

[surveyor]

 

[Bendroctanus]

The devil’s hottub.

 

[Bendroctanus]

Chuck Norris’ ice plunge.

 

[Bendroctanus]

The treatment plant after Taco Bell binge.

 

[Bendroctanus]

In all seriousness, that’s amazing. Would be awesome to behold. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Treezybreez]

Gordon, you pulled a bait and switch on me. I thought we were going to be be talking about the biblical “Lake of Fire”.

 

[surveyor]

 

[ghostice]

There's a geologist named Shawn Willsey from Wash State that runs a YouTube geology channel and he keeps track of both Icelandic and Hawaian vulcanology and earthquakes. Shawn shows amazing drone footage from Iceland from time to time. He also has amazing footage of this latest eruption in Hawaii, with commentary (complete with the taking out one of the USGS volcano cams one the crater rim, in the latest eruption). I'd urge anyone interested in this sort of stuff to take a trip to Iceland, even if just to drive the ring road around the country. When you get into parts of the interior especially, the only way I can describe it, is these places are not of this earth. Some of the shots from Promethius were shot there. Just bogglingly beautiful. And the geothermal plants and well drilling (Statoil from Norway) are state of the art - the piping expansion loops into the power plants are something to behold! The supercritical steam just screams when they're venting wells (way, way over 120 dBA - you don't hear it, you feel it). Lotsa power down there. At the time there were drilling wells for a power plant in the north, they had to stop in some areas because they kept hitting lava, only a km or two down. So parts of the island are still just floating around on molten rock right beneath your feet! We live on an amazing little blue ball in space for sure.