Operating a restaurant on a volcano sounds like an insane thing to do, but that's what local notable architect Cesar Manrique has been doing with El Diablo, a restaurant that's been in business — cooking food
using volcanic heat — since 1970.
Not exact matches
Virgin
Volcanic planned to power the VVS1 probe by
using heat from the molten lava, thus developing a totally renewable energy source.
Bentonite clay is actually
volcanic ash and has been
used throughout history for healing because it produces an electric charge that, when
heated, has the ability to absorb toxins like a sponge.
The stolons easily root in a media we
use called perlite (
heated, «puffed»
volcanic glass).
According to Oddity Central, the restaurant's customized grill was a bit of an architectural feat: in order to bypass the problem of not being able to build conventional foundations due to the
heat underground, architects Eduardo Caceres and Jesus Soto
used nine layers of
volcanic basalt rock to make a suitable cooking pit.
The ability of models to simulate ocean
heat uptake, including variations imposed by large
volcanic eruptions, adds confidence to their
use in assessing the global energy budget and simulating the thermal component of sea level rise.
Satellite tots up
volcanic heat «Robert Wright and Luke Flynn from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu
used the NASA satellite MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) to measure the
heat emitted by the world's 45 most active volcanoes,»