Do they use energy coming from volcanoes? And if no, why?
In: Earth Science
The thing you need to understand about the energy we create is so much of it is steam based. We don’t just burn coal and electricity is made, we burn it to heat water and make steam. Even nuclear power plants for how complicated they are, boil down to essentially setting a fire under a pot of water and using the steam to turn a fan, thus generating electricity.
That’s all fine in a controlled setting where you can regulate the thing heating the water. But putting a factory over/near one of the most volatile and unpredictable things on earth isn’t feasibly currently. There’s no way to control the output it would be up to the whims of the volcano and if there was an eruption it would destroy everything. And though lava would probably be a great heat source its not something that can be pumped around and transported to use as fuel.
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