XKCD What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw?

[MarkB]

Huh. I wonder how applicable this is for, say, drilling into a magma chamber for a geothermal energy plant? Aside from drilling complications, perhaps this means you won't automatically create an inconvenient volcano?

Applicable? I'm not sure anything that requires an infinitely-powerful pump and infinitely-strong materials could be called "applicable".

 

[Baron Opal II]

Applicable? I'm not sure anything that requires an infinitely-powerful pump and infinitely-strong materials could be called "applicable".

Randall mentions that there is a maximum velocity that a fluid can pass through a tube. Depending on the characteristics, a pipeline (straw analog) that digs down into a magma chamber (Niagara River analog) may not necessarily create a volcano. That way you can send a heat exchange line down the pipe and run a geothermal plant.