Posted on 05/03/2012 12:51:07 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
I keep 12 months of usage in reserve.
It’s hopeful. It could bring about change. Therefore, it will cause global warming, and must be stopped./s
Mine it - use it up, else if the Earth warms enough all that hydrate will convert to gas turning the Earth back into a methane atmosphered planet. Oxyen will then become the new currency ... until the fresh water and food are used up.
Place weighted balloons up their a@#es. When they fart, the balloons fill up. When they defficate, the balloons are pushed out, but retain their content because the weights keep the methane inside. All the farmer has to do is collect the balloons, insert new ones, and wait for a pickup service for the full balloons. Global warming, stopped in its tracks. Farmers making money off of cow farts. Balloons put to good use. What’s not to like about this?
Just try to imagine what we could have done if we took all the money we spent on the “green energy” rathole and put it into LNG infrastructure. Grrr.
If nothing else, it is an alcohol, and is hydrophilic.
If nothing else, it is an alcohol, and is hydrophilic.
Apparently IsoOctane rocks.
Hate comes from envy which comes from vanity. The envi-mentalists want at least half of humanity to die off, thereby reducing their painful feelings of envy in half, or so their thinking goes. What doesn't make logical sense is why don't they want the mankind-killing climate apocalypse they tell us is coming? If all they believe is true, they get their wish. They should be rooting for it.
Message to envi-mentalists from the Joneses next door: "Try to keep up!"
I thought all you had to do was warm it up and it would de-crystallize into water vapor and methane. Something about weak covalent bonds holding it together...
Bump
BWWwwaaaahahahaha It’s all Chu’s fault. Now they’ve gone and done it. This has come about a lot sooner than I expected.
BWWwwaaaahahahaha It’s all Chu’s fault. Now they’ve gone and done it. This has come about a lot sooner than I expected.
This could have been delayed easily and no one would have had a clue.
What does this say about his estimate of the politics of this?
Is he gonna say this drilling is a Green Job?
He is going to use this to tell the world how he is serious about going after all forms of energy and this is a great NEW source....
And quietly he will tell those concered about environmental damage and the fishies...just cool it..."I will have more Flexibility after I am reelected"!!
BTTT!
“The department said it would likely be years before production of methane hydrates becomes economically viable. Secretary Chu said in his statement, “While this is just the beginning, this research could potentially yield significant new supplies of natural gas.”
This of course, is the key to Chu’s love of the process. It’s not coming for decades. As soon as it becomes practical and economic, the left everywhere will be violently opposed to Methane Hydrates.
Thanks Ernest. Zero will make a major policy-shift speech about this, saying we must move beyond a modern society.
Also thanks neverdem for the additional ping.
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