A Massive Lake of Molten Carbon The Size of Mexico is Discovered Under The US

GeologyIn ^ | 30 Apr 2017

[shove_it]

Pre-historic SUVs, that’s the explanation.

[bankwalker]

Superman turned lumps of coal into actual diamonds just by squeezing them real hard in his hands.

[bert]

-—where solid carbonates melt-—

So, the molten substance is not carbon but carbon compounds. A very carbon compound found on the surface, that is in fact the surface is calcium carbonate. Calcium carbonate is ordinary limestone.

The article is fake science and basically hogwash with numbers

[Caipirabob]

Holy crap! No one is getting out of life alive! We're dooooooooomed! ☠️

[trebb]

Just more proof that the Earth is beyond us puny humans and will do what she will do in spite of those who would subjugate her...

[existentially_kuffer]

Of course it’s underground. No mention of leakage.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Cletus gave his lovely Lurlene one of those for our 30th Anniversary of Shacking-up.

Don’t tell her that...she thinks it is another kind of carbon crystal.

[728b]

Pencil shortage solved!

[dblshot]

So it’s molten carbon because it is closer to the earth’s hot core. If it comes up what happens? Cools and turns to coal? What is the mechanism that turns it into carbon dioxide? Oh yeah, the addition of politics.

[puppypusher]

Molten carbon?is that just short of being a liquified hydrocarbon?If so we need to start drilling immediately.

We’ll be able to take over the oil markets and drive prices to reasonable levels.

Though government will increase taxes to keep those prices even higher.

[COBOL2Java]

We just discovered its existence, so it must be an imminent threat. Hey, it worked with the ozone hole.

Louis Black: "It's ridiculous that we still have a hole in the ozone layer. We have men, we have rockets, we have Saran Wrap - FIX IT!! And don't come back until you do."

[American in Israel]

When hydrogen and carbon monoxide comes across heated iron it forms oil. It was how Germany made its fuel for world War II.

It will come up out of the ground in an oozing black mess. We better capture it an burn it or we will all drown...

[BitWielder1]

Ooh, big scary numbers!

[NativeSon]

- women, BLT’s,& minorites to be hurt the most

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Bottom line, carbon is a natural part of the environment.

Duh.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

how do you get lithium out of carbon and silicon?

Well, when all the Oregon and Washington barking-moonbats fall into the "Lake of Fire"...they're all loaded with lithium to treat their various psychotic disorders.

[Ozark Tom]

Reducing the pressure would allow part of the reservoir to evaporate, cooling the larger bulk remaining at the site of a leak.

[Rebelbase]

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Is the Earth a big nuclear reactor? Is that the reason there is molten rock at the center even after billions of years?

Wikipedia gives a list of isotope half-lives, many very brief but no few of them ranging into the millions - some into the billions - of years.

Apparently all those isotopes throw off enough heat to maintain quite a large fraction of the earth’s interior in a molten state, roughly equaling the heat transferred to the surface through the “frozen” crust we live on, and into space.

I venture the guess that a smaller planet with the same initial isotope concentrations in it would be less likely to have a molten core.

[MeganC]

“molten carbon”???

That sounds like a big huge lake of oil to me!!!

Sweet!!! (-: