Posted on 11/17/2004 10:25:10 AM PST by cogitator
One thing interesting about H2S; you can smell it at low concentrations in the air. At higher concentrations (above 50 ppm going on memory), it cannot be smelt, and that's when it becomes lethal to inhale.
I have a friend who is able to produce methane in real time...
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Manipulating the genes of these microbes to make other versions could revolutionize refineing.. and make petro-refineing instead petro-brewing.. Just give those little fellas some powdered coal and other "stuff' and VOILA gasoline.. instead of BEER.. or diesle fuel or even crude oil.. Would be cool... instead of a fuel cell you could brew your OWN gasoline or natural gas.. in your garage...
Obvious crude oil and methane are waste products for these little guys..
Reminds me of a story I told some of my grandchildren when they asked me one time what I was drinking.. I said beer.. They said "WHats BEER...", and having had just enough beer to make me more intelligent, I SAID..
Well beer is whats left after some little creatures called "yeasties".. eat all the sugar in some stuff called "malt stuff".. and poop out alcohol and some gas.. and what left is called beer.. and old men drink it...
They said, "Ewwwwwwwwe" all together at the same time... took me a few minutes to recover... as you can well imagine.. d;-'
There is an immense supply of gas under the senate and house buildings. If it were tapped...look out!
Kimchee, Raineer beer, and balut......all the natural gas you need.
Yeah, but can he produce methane at will? I've got a brother that can virtually pass a breezer on command. And it ain't the colorless odorless type either. I swear I've seen the cloud ;^)
FGS
I agree -- encouraging development.
It is worth pouring money into to determine the truth.
Didn't our God create a marvelous system? Men think they are sooooo smart, yet God just keeps on providing for them and hardly ever gets thanked for it.
"Real time"...as opposed to what?
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BTT!!!!!!!
There are already natural gas (methane) powered cars out there. There are natural-gas powered Ford Contours around and I do believe they also currently make natural-gas powered Ford Tauruses.
As opposed to all natural gas deposits being paleo-generated (created in the distant past) -- with no active formation of natural gas occurring in the modern era, i.e., now.
"there is not a lower impact on the environment natural resource that I can think of"
I heard that the natural-gas powered vehicles burn so clean that the engine oil never even starts turning dark. 10,000 miles and the oil still looks like it was just poured from the bottle.
Yes. According to the Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative, the local electric company, 30% of the electricity they distribute comes from natural gas, and that figure is expected to increase.
Natural gas is a variable mixture of those gases, plus others, listed in reply 15.
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