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NASA-scientists came up with a huge, ambitious strategy to prevent the eruption of Caldera volcano in Yellowstone National Park, one of 20 super-volcanoes around the world, which could cause a volcanic winter for the globe when erupting. 

The leading researcher, Brian Wilcox from the JPL, eventually acknowledged that such an eruption would be more likely to happen than an asteroid impact. Such large-scale supereruptions have been said to only roughly every 100 000 to one million years, but the Yellowstone volcano has been found to erupt around every 60 000 years, and this mark has already been passed again.

So the researchers at NASA now came up with an report that tells that the most logical way to address the threat is to cool down the magma chambers of the supervolcano. Yellowstone is suspected to leak about 60 to 70 percent of the heat it generates into the atmosphere, released through the famous hot springs. The rest amount is stored and can trigger an eruption; the researchers stated that they have to cool it down by 35 percent to prevent that from happening. They would have to drill down 10 kilometers, which should be possible to reach with the water pumping down, they added, which would absorb the heat and would be pumped out again afterwards. The hot water could then be used in many ways.

Somebody please sell this idea to Trump. Give lucrative government contracts to his mining companies friends so they would do this instead of mining for coal and oil, and sell geothermal energy instead.