Do they use energy coming from volcanoes? And if no, why?
In: Earth Science
Kind of. There are geothermal power stations, where they dig down to magma and use the heat from it to generate electricity. (Or, in some cases, they just pipe water down near the magma, the water comes up scalding hot, and they use the water to heat buildings.)
But they normally do this where the magma is deep underground and not going anywhere, so, not in a volcano. A volcano is a spot where the magma pressure is so strong that it made the ground bulge up into a mountain, and that mountain might even erupt. Not an attractive place to build. Also, building on/in a mountain means hauling all your materials up/into a mountain and making your workers commute up/into a mountain, which is not something you’d do if you could help it.
Some volcanoes are dormant, meaning they haven’t done anything scary lately…but that might also mean there isn’t as much magma to work with.
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