The volcano of La Palma has already been erupting uninterruptedly for 38 days and without hope that its activity will stop in the coming days, some are looking for alternative solutions to try to prevent the lava flows from continuing to devastate buildings and land. One of them has been proposed by the president of the Cabildo de La Gomera, Casimiro Curbelo, who has raised the possibility of military aircraft dropping bombs on the lava flow to divert its path.
Curbelo made these surprising statements in a radio talk show in Gran Canaria. "Isn't there a plane that flies and can drop? Arrive and drop, boom! and I, direct the lava in one direction. Maybe what I'm saying is nonsense. It seems to me that from a technological point of view we have to try it," he said.
"Let's put ourselves in a reality of a raft that loses water and we want it to flow suddenly. Well, we will have to act with a system that drops a small explosive bomb and destroys a part and everything comes out at once," insisted Curbelo, who assured that it is the only feasible solution and clarifies that this measure has already been carried out in the past in other volcanic eruptions.
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