Posted on 04/30/2017 8:38:09 PM PDT by shove_it
Does this mean carbon fiber prices are going to come down now? /s
Yes, should be la Nina...
Whoops...
Thank you. 65Ma. Before my time!
Thats actually quite an interesting thought, drill to magma, it comes up through pipeline and used in a giant 3D printing type of machine that prints out the wall in liquid rock.
That’s a lot of dead elk.
Now they are finally getting around to figuring out where our infinite supply of oil is coming from.
Molten Carbon is a great name for a a rock band.
This is yet another horribly written article, with an author trying to sound knowledgeable. Carbonates such as limestone do not "melt" at normal atmospheric pressure: at high temperature limestone "decomposes" into (basically) lime (CaO) and CO2. Pushed hard enough lime will melt (around 4662 deg. F!) but this has nothing to do with molten carbon. However, carbonates can melt when at both high temperature and high pressure -- this is how marble is formed.
Carbon (as in coal) doesn't melt easily either, tho' I couldn't find much info. on what it might do under pressure. The question remains: Are there lakes of pre-marble down there? Or actual melted carbon?
Uh... It's underground - which is the whole point of the story.
Diamonds melt fairly easily, but I find it hard to believe there are huge lakes of melted diamonds well down in the mantle...
When you get right down to it, ANY of the mantle, released in “huge” quantities would be disastrous...
Perhaps, in the name of the environment, we should take over Mexico and make it a giant carbon offset. We could name it after Al Gore.
Then we would be able to fuel starships.
But how do you get lithium out of carbon and silicon?
Humans obtain every single carbon that humanity uses from natural sources. We merely get useful work from it before it goes back to nature.
Nobody has pointed out that it looks like a donkey?
Seriously...so what?
Carbon oxygen molecules shift from carbon dioxide to carbon trioxide (i.e. carbonate), depending on pH and other factors. You could say that carbonate is the salt or acid form of CO2.
Carbonate is an important molecule in our blood. It is produced by metabolism of larger biomolecules. When our blood becomes too acidic, we increase our breathing rate to exhale more CO2 and bring our blood pH back to neutral. When our blood is too caustic, our kidneys excrete more carbonate into the urine to neutralize blood pH.
An observer in a space time bubble might perceive the act of creation and experience it as “7” days!
Since it is over 200 miles below the surface I don’t think Elon Musk is going to go that far down. In fact, his Tesla would melt around the 15 mile deep marker...
Carbon such as graphite or coal when heated and pressurized makes artificial diamonds(zircons)!
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