Volcano Missile
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OVERVIEW
Scientific advances have bolstered the International Airway Volcano Watch by increasing methods of forecasting volcanic eruptions; for example, weather radar helps to detect eruptions; detailed study of tephra or pyroclastic debris and their effect gives substantive information about past eruptions; the study of ash rich and SO2 rich lava gives more information to help manage eruptions incase of future occurrence.
These studies have moved us closer to understanding and approaching volcanic
eruptions. This however can be taken much further; this paper presents a novel and achievable objective that seek to halt volcanic eruption force.
Introducing this paper is coming from the Volcanic Ash that disrupted flights over Europe for about six days in April, 2010 that caused an estimated loss over billion. If there was a scientific approach as one proposed here, maybe the duration will be reduced or the eruption will be less harmful than simulated.
This method to approach this is directing a rocket like object down the volcano throat to move fast against the spewing lava and hit the magma chamber at a high speed hoping to disrupt the force of ejection of the magma.
Rather than have a warhead like a missile, it is expected to have a very reactive element to disintegrate after the rocket-like object hits the magma in its chamber.
With further scientific and technical review, this method should deliver as expected.
The reason for a research paper as this is to ensure we have alternative(s) to super volcanic eruptions to avoid mass destruction of lives and properties, health problems and flights cancellation in future especially during a time when an important event is holding.
There maybe large volcanic eruptions in future, with a solution like this; science will provide an artificial approach to reducing it rather than conventionally waiting for the eruption to cool.
Achievable is the sobriquet of this proposition; and we may just have a way out from what appears as an ‘unlikely’ suggestion.
INFORMATION
A volcano is a fissure in certain planet crust through which molten magma and gases
erupt. Volcanoes are generally formed where tectonic plates are diverging or converging.
A volcano can also be defined as a mountain formed by volcanic material.
Some volcanic mountains are: Super volcano, cinder cone, strato volcano and
Submarine Volcano. Volcanoes are classified into active, dormant and extinct, based on
their frequency of eruption. Some effects of volcanoes are: acid rain, pollution, global cooling, global warming and earthquake.
Volcanic ash consists of tephra (bits of pulverized rock and glass), created by volcanic
eruptions less than 0.079 inches in diameter. There are three mechanisms of volcanic
ash formation: gas release under decompression causing magma tic eruptions; thermal
contraction from chilling on contact with water causing phreatomagmatic eruptions, and
ejection of entrained particles during steam eruptions causing phreatic eruptions.
The violent nature of volcanic eruptions involving steam results in magma and solid rock
surrounding the vent being torn into particles of clay to sand size. Volcanic ash can lead
to breathing problems and malfunctions in machinery.
Ash deposited on the ground after an eruption is known as ash fall deposit. Significant
accumulations of ash fall can lead to the immediate destruction of most of the local
ecosystem, as well the collapse of roofs on man-made structures. Over time, ash fall can
lead to the creation of fertile soils. Ash fall can also become cemented together to form a
solid rock (tuff). Over geologic time, the ejection of large quantities of ash can produce
an ash cone.
TASK
This project seek to send a high speed rocket like, missile sized object down a super volcano for it to hit the magma in its chamber at a high speed thereby reducing the force wherewith the lava is expelled, this will reduce the expected spew time.
After the impact, the object will dispel a reactive electropositive element that expected to react with the magma chamber contents.
A certain gram of the element is expected to react with some good amount of gas producing a compound that will be comparatively harmless to the environment.
The element should react with some ash particles causing them to be denatured, reducing their amount.
The rocket-object however is expected to produce an outcome that will help reduce the magma spewing duration amongst other usefulness of the process.
APPROACH
Delivery Object:
We are looking at having rocket looking, missile sized object. This will not have the warhead explosive as missiles but will deliver an extremely reactive element to the magma chamber while the object is expected to hit the magma chamber at a high speed disrupting and reducing the speed at which the lava is spewed.
From solid, water and container experiment. It is shown that if water in a container is stirred, waves move about the ends. If a solid is dropped from a height into the container, it disrupts existing waves and creates it own short-lived waves.
This simple experiment will be applied for use in this approach. The object will not explode at the magma chamber, rather disintegrate and dissipate its contents.
The object is expected to move like a rocket, lunched from a lunch facility or a lunch pad. Radio waves or laser will guide it to its target. The radiation may emanate from the object itself or from the lunch facility.
Most magma chamber lie around 1-10km beneath sea level, when the object is lunched, it is expected to head in vertically through the conduit, and straight down till it hits the magma chamber to create its own short lived waves.
After lunch, the radio waves will ensure it goes down through the middle of the direction in which the plume is spewed. If the approximate depth of the magma chamber is known, the object can use target system. The object also needs a flight system, for guidance since the flight will use data from the targeting or guidance system to maneuver the object in flight, allowing it to counter inaccuracies in the volcano or follow a moving target. This should be vectored thrust since the object will be powered throughout the guidance phase of its flight.
Since the object has a pointed edge, when it strikes the surface of the magma chamber, rather than disrupt waves, it may be thought to go in unfelt. This will not happen, when the object strikes the surface, on a very high speed, at the tip of impact, its display some
waves, then as the body moves in it keeps displaying waves.
This sort of concern questions the possibility of getting one rocket-object to calm
a volcano. What if the object is designed to have small wings, the waves displayed will be increased; the wings will be so designed not to collide with the edge of rock along the volcano throat.
Horizontal impact when the rocket approaches the tip of the volcano is unrealistic since the magma chamber is relatively small. Rather than a pointed edge, as obtainable for missiles and rockets, this volcano rocket may have a blunt extensive head that will disrupt the force on arrival.
Two or more volcano rocket can be used to still an eruption so long signals of successful arrival of one are obtained by from the radio waves. The object will be designed such that it moves at very high speed opposing the tephra or pyroclast movement, moving fast also into the molten magma.
This method is not expected to be used for small volcanic eruptions; rather, it is expected to be used for major eruptions after observation of how destructive its appearing.
OBJECTIONS:
Certain challenges are obvious from this method presented; a some answers are provided here.
Volcanic Ash particles usually interfere with Jet Engines so how can the volcano rocket evade ash interference? The object will run down the conduit, the object will move heads down the throat, so it is expected that the high speed emitted emission from the rear of the object will prevent ash particles from the magma chamber to enter the engine.
When a rocket engine hits hard on a surface, it explodes?
Not in all cases, since the magma chamber is deep and the object has a blunt edge; it
is expected that the object will move in disrupting the ongoing force and create its
temporal wave rather than explode on impact.
What are the likely present or future effects of having metal deposits far below ground level? Usually, present or past volcanic sites are abandoned because of the risk of future occurrence. The metals deposits from the object will settle somewhere below the rock so possibility of spewing or slurring is lessened.
Eruption explosiveness comes from tremendous heat energy that causes rapid expansion of gas, which is mostly just like water (steam), how is it possible to get rid of heat and water? This is where the reactive element comes in, to foster rapid reaction with heat and water, in order to form compounds that cannot be further expanded; volcano missile impact too should also help reduce expansion.
The rocket will be flying against a stone wind of ash in gas and then into upward flowing magma; does it mean that it will have to start swimming well before it gets to the magma chamber? Correctly, the volcano- rocket will be designed specially to withstand such conditions and arrive at its expected end.
The conduit or crack that leads to from a volcanic crater to the magma chamber is not likely to be large and straight, how will the volcano rocket fly there? This appears to be the greatest challenge facing this approach. Special rockets can be made for this, but if it strikes a rock on it way down, may simply end its assignment there. Volcano rockets when made will be extremely intelligent objects to ‘see’ through the conduit and obliquely drive against the lava. Such an object is doable in today aeronautics. However one or more ‘small’ volcano rocket maybe used to halt or reduce spewing lava from an eruption.
All these are yet theoretical but imaginary simulation is saying sure.
CHEMICAL ELEMENT:
Instead of warhead as in missiles, a very reactive element will be used, which after impact will dispel in order to help reduce the amount of gas and ash spewed to the surface.
The reduction of the force with which the plume is spewed after impact prevents the arriving element of the volcano-rocket to be spewed. Once the force disruption is reasonably efficient by the object, the element should be more effective on a settled or settling molten rock.
The elements to be used are those high up in the electrochemical series, extremely electropositive elements that reacts with most elements or compounds. Potassium, Sodium, and Calcium are considered for efficacy. Potassium would have been the most appropriate, but it reacts explosively with certain elements and compounds such as steam or ice, usually found in magma chambers. Calcium is appears to be preferable since it produces compounds familiar with rock environments. Magma compounds are usually compounds found in rocks. Calcium reaction will help cut emission of steam, ice, gases producing compounds less harmless than the initial emission.
NOTES:
This paper presents likely solution to ending long and deadly volcanic eruption effects on
human and the environment. A common perception of a volcano is a conical mountain
spewing lava and poisonous gases. Pyroclast are composed of molten volcanic ash too
heavy to go up into the atmosphere, so they hug the volcano’s slopes and travel far from
their vents during large eruptions.
Temperatures as high as 1,200 °C are known to occur in pyroclastic flows, which will
incinerate everything flammable in their path and thick layers of hot pyroclastic flow
deposits can be laid down, often up to many meters thick.
This article gets me amused, but I don’t want to sit in disbelief for a guess that maybe true. Constructive review will sincerely have the world a resolve towards this.
This approach also appears imperative than slanting a hole in from the side of the volcano to try and reach the magma chamber; though it provides a better chance to get there, it will take longer and be useful for already cooled off eruption.
REFERENCES:
Certain information in this paper is obtained from some files and websites that provide free diverse information. Internet search on keywords as Missile, Volcanic Ash and Volcano will have you definitions and further readings.
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This composite image from NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory with radio data from the Very Large Array shows a cosmic volcano being driven by a black hole in the center of the M87 galaxy.
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