02-22-2014, 05:19 PM
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/multimedia/upload...le-605.jpg
This photo from a couple days ago is very interesting. The flow isn't moving forward much but it is fanning out, both north and south. The main flow is going down slope on top of the ridge, then there is a branch down slope to the south, and the more active branch going down slope to the north. If the flow continues, this will keep going faster down the north slope of the east rift ridge, towards Ainaloa, then across Hwy 130. What was the time span on the USGS simulation?
The irony is this is Wao Kele O Puna, that used to be privately owned by the Campbell estate that did the first geothermal exploration wells there. The fear was that geothermal wells would destroy the environment. That turned into Green Peace and Sierra Club fighting for the state to turn Wao Kele O Puna into a state reserve, eventually being turned over to OHA, through a land swap with the Campbell estate. The bigger irony is that both locations that were proposed for what would be PGV have been covered with lava. Wao Kele O Puna is supposed to be the last wet land forest in Hawaii. Hate to break it to people but Pele really doesn't give a crap about the aina, except for making more of it.
"This island Hawaii on this island Earth"
This photo from a couple days ago is very interesting. The flow isn't moving forward much but it is fanning out, both north and south. The main flow is going down slope on top of the ridge, then there is a branch down slope to the south, and the more active branch going down slope to the north. If the flow continues, this will keep going faster down the north slope of the east rift ridge, towards Ainaloa, then across Hwy 130. What was the time span on the USGS simulation?
The irony is this is Wao Kele O Puna, that used to be privately owned by the Campbell estate that did the first geothermal exploration wells there. The fear was that geothermal wells would destroy the environment. That turned into Green Peace and Sierra Club fighting for the state to turn Wao Kele O Puna into a state reserve, eventually being turned over to OHA, through a land swap with the Campbell estate. The bigger irony is that both locations that were proposed for what would be PGV have been covered with lava. Wao Kele O Puna is supposed to be the last wet land forest in Hawaii. Hate to break it to people but Pele really doesn't give a crap about the aina, except for making more of it.
"This island Hawaii on this island Earth"
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*
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