Posted on 01/29/2006 10:31:47 PM PST by neverdem
SHUT HIM DOWN! SCREAM! MAKE NOISE! DON'T LET HIM GET AWAY WITH CHALLENGING OUR WORLD VIEW!
Oops. Sorry. Wrong forum...
My first thought was that Fat Ted took his Oldsmobile for drive again.
Every 33 feet you gain 1 atmosphere of pressure. At 2600 feet you're looking at 78.7878788 atmospheres of pressure. This makes the boiling point considerably higher than at the surface. Also once you get below about 500 feet, it starts getting cold fast.
I'm sure there are graphs online that depict these relationships.
At 1 atmosphere, at sea level, the air pressure is 14.7 PSI, at 2600 feet BSL you're looking at 1,158.18182 PSI.
1 gallon of this hydrate if brought to the surface would be almost 79 gallons, so there is a lot of potential there.
First, we should try a small scale robotic mining experiment using steam to create a natural gas supply for our pipeline system.
from a year ago:
How the Gores, Father and Son, Helped Their Patron Occidental Petroleum
Source: Center for Public Integrity
Published: 11 Jan 2000 Author: Charles Lewis and the Center for Public Integrity
Posted on 03/09/2000 12:26:40 PST by Hamiltonian
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38c809001b91.htm
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