[toss1]

As the article mentioned, the Yellowstone risk is more future than current, and is being extensively monitored, and "A much bigger risk is likely large eruptions from volcanoes that we aren’t tracking and have no data for.".

One that is being tracked, and showing a present threat is the Vesuvius complex (which did in Pompeii), and is showing markedly increased activity [0]. I'd be more interested in proposals that might mitigate that.

Or more generally, studies finding out how late such a project could start and still be successful, i.e., able to extract sufficient heat from the system before it erupts, thus preventing the eruption.

[0] https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/europes-mo...

[calamari4065]

It'd be so cool if someone threw a ridiculous amount of money at doing this. The science seems at least plausible and there's some hypothetical benefits, but mostly it'd be a really fucking cool engineering project. Probably completely impractical, but the kind of massive "just to say we can" project I think we really need