I think there are much easier ways to get massive amounts of power than try to interface with such an incredibly chaotic and unpredictable system.

An even bigger problem though is that most of the time geologists really have to aggressively make the case to anybody that their work is valuable when it isn’t directly contributing to finding oil or evaluating groundwater reserves.

Studying volcanoes, even in places with lots of volcanoes, is considered kind of a dubious practice by most people and taxpayers. Yeah sure, Mount Saint Helens goes off and all of a sudden people will take volcanoes very seriously for a bit, but generally people don’t give a shit about geology even if they haven’t been infected with “the earth is only 10,000 years old!” brainworms.

I mean, geologists will give a warning like “well, we could all die with no warning anytime from now through the next 50,000 years so we are very very due for a catastrophic eruption and we need to prepare!”.

Like yo, we can’t even agree to fucking give universal healthcare to people in my country…. sigh.