Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

The recent news indicates that there appear to be connecting channels between the magma chambers along the known volcanos of the cascade range. In one way this is very troubling as it means that there is a very present danger not just near the peaks the other side of that is that there is an opportunity to utilize that network for power generation. Most people do not want to have the national parks industrialized for any reason. With the channels connecting that means there is a way to tap the scource of heat without entering the parks.
So the idea is to place thermal operated equipments, steam engines, along those corridors and produce electric power by tapping into the heat source and injecting water into that system where it will create steam and power the engines. It should be possible to build a system that catches the expelled steam and condense the stean into water and recycle it so that fresh sourced water is kept to a minimum. That system could also provide the means to build a series of greenhouses to grow food crops on a year around basis.
Grown locally those crops would provide a source of food items for local use without high transportation costs. This would be great for schools, homes for the elderly and to help the needy. The system would provide work for a variety of skills, electrical, steam operators, gardeners and people to transport and distribute the production of the greenhouses. Utilizing the natural heat would help eliminate the use of fossil fuels in power generation and may provide an additional measure of bleeding off some of the heat that could result in lessing the danger of eruptions.
The water that would be recovered from such a process would be distilled and would need to be processed to replenish the water with minerals to help with the growing process. Mother nature does that by running water over mineral rich soils and by means of what takes place in storms, and we could create those conditions to enhance the water. After it has provided the plants with energy it could then again be reeturned to make steam and go through the process again, at least it seems possible. Not sure of what this would cost, but it seems like there would be a great deal of gains for the expense.