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Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake

posted by janrinok on Wednesday June 13 2018, @07:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the unexpected-consequences dept.

realDonaldTrump writes:

"Lava from the Kilauea eruption has boiled away Hawaii's largest freshwater lake in just a matter of hours.

In a statement released on June 2, the U.S. Geological Survey explained that lava from the eruption's fissure 8 entered Green Lake and boiled its water away, sending a white plume high into the sky.

USGS tweeted that lava entered Green Lake at 10 AM local time. By 3PM, Hawaii County Fire Department confirmed that the lake had filled and that its water had evaporated." foxnews.com/science/2018/06/12/hawaii-volcano-kilauea-lava-boiled-away-big-islands-largest-freshwater-lake.html

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by JeanCroix on Thursday June 14 2018, @12:55PM

    by JeanCroix (573) on Thursday June 14 2018, @12:55PM (#692859)

    With a back-of-envelope calculation, I think it probably would require somewhere around 4.5 gigawatts of power over those 5 hours to evaporate water at that rate.

    Wow, that's enough power for three trips to 1985!

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