Volcanoes are natural incinerators. Can we use volcanoes to burn garbage?
Can use volcanoes to burn garbage
Volcanoes are one of the most unforgiving natural phenomena on Earth. If you fall into the center filled with magma, the body will quickly blister and disappear without a trace. Then someone will say, since volcanoes are so good at processing things, why don't we use this natural "incinerator" to process our garbage? It's easier said than done, but it's not that simple...
Volcanoes look like nature's garbage incinerators, but in reality, they are more dangerous and unstable. Is it worth it to overcome these obstacles? Or would dumping garbage into a volcano do more damage to our planet? The first hurdle in our search for a way to dispose of volcanic waste is finding an active volcano that can do the job. There are only about 1,500 potentially active volcanoes in the world, and most of them are in uninhabited and uninhabited areas, which means that it would be very expensive to transport all the garbage to an active volcano, even if it gets there, Might also find it's not the type of active volcano that burns garbage properly.
The volcanoes to look for are called shield volcanoes, slow erupting volcanoes that contain iconic lava lakes that are gradually erupting onto Earth. Unfortunately, such volcanoes are not common to us. They are more commonly seen with angry expressions, known as stratovolcanoes. Stratovolcanoes are known for their explosive eruptions, which are caused by the pressure build-up of hot gas and magma. In other words, it is extremely unsafe to dump garbage into such volcanoes.
The crater is a dangerous environment full of toxic gases, splashing lava, and projecting rocks; once you start throwing things in it, it only gets worse. In 2002, a group of Ethiopian researchers threw a 30-kilogram bag of garbage into the volcano, which turned out to be explosive. Lava lakes are unstable, so if you pour something cold, that will pierce their surface, and you'll set off a chain reaction of explosions, including pressurized and acidic steam. It's hard to imagine how powerful the explosion would be if the entire earth's trash was poured into it.
Even if it's safe to transport trash to the volcano, there's still air pollution from not having a filter to burn our trash. Also, not everything can reach the melting point in the lava to fully decompose, which means that contamination residues can erupt and pollute the surrounding environment, in addition to that, transporting all the garbage to these volcanoes would greatly increase The carbon footprint of waste disposal, so to speak, the idea of volcanoes disposing of waste is not very ideal.
Humans can generate billions of tons of garbage every year. How to effectively dispose of garbage has always been a problem in the world. Even if the currently envisaged method of volcanic incineration is still difficult to achieve, if everyone can reduce garbage production, do a good job in garbage classification, save money Resources, low-carbon life, starting from me, starting from small things, may not be the best way for human beings to deal with the problem of garbage...
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