[thaumasiotes]

> given the size of past Yellowstone eruptions, and the span of time between them, the rate that energy builds below the volcano is only around 1.5 gigawatts - less heat than a typical power plant sheds. Yellowstone currently bleeds heat at a rate of about 4.5 to 6 gigawatts, mostly through heated water moving below the surface. You'd thus (theoretically) only need to increase the heat bleed by around 35% to stop energy accumulating and stop future eruptions.

Doesn't this say that the heat bleed is already at least 300% of what's necessary to stop energy from accumulating?

[sp332]

No, it says that energy is bleeding at 4.5 GW and accumulating at 1.5GW. To get accumulation to 0, you need to boost bleeding by that amount.