“Lake Nyos similarly accumulates and traps large amounts of dissolved gas..
On 21 August 1986, the lethal potential of that gas reservoir was made tragically evident...A large, deadly cloud of the gas asphyxiated an estimated 1,800 people in nearby villages.
Here’s a vid on how they fixed the problem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEs6j0MGTgk&feature=emb_logo
With Lake Kivu they want to try to harness for power generation.
I remember that incident.
It took them a while to figure out what happened to kill all those people from no apparent cause. They just died where they were with no signs of violence or physical attack of any kind.
Why are they pumping the CO2 back into the lake? It would seem like they’re kicking the asphyxiation scenario can, down the road for others to deal with. It would seem like a controlled release of the CO2 from the lake is as important in risk reduction as is the methane extraction.
I know, climate change places these two million people at risk, by it’s hysterical claims that CO2 is harmful to the earth’s climate. What idiots.
The same happens with the icing in antartica.
Hence the reason why it is warming which precedes CO2 release, and not CO2 that causes global warming
there has never been correlation between CO2 release in causing warming, but the reverse, yes.
Ah yes, a Meromitic lake plagued by limnic eruptions each 1,000 years or so.
I too remember the Nyos disaster. I have some vague recollection that the lake was in a narrow ravine area, so the gas went fairly high up. The picture here of lake Kivu shows the ground rising gradually over a wide area. Are there differences in the two topographies that would reduce the dangers of mass death?