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GOOGLE Frozen Methane Hydrate - I am sick of peak oil soothsayers
http://www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/oilgas/hydrates/index.html ^

Posted on 06/13/2007 6:22:22 PM PDT by WBL 1952

Worldwide, estimates of the natural gas potential of methane hydrate approach 400 million trillion cubic feet -- a staggering figure compared to the 5,500 trillion cubic feet that make up the world's currently proven gas reserves.

OF COURSE THE PEOPLE THAT BELIEVE THE GLASS IS HALF EMPTY WILL COME UP WITH A DOZEN REASONS WHY THIS RESOURCE WON'T DO THE JOB OR WILL CONTRIBUTE TO GLOBAL WARMING.

I BELIEVE THE GLASS IS HALF FULL.

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To: ndt
My only postulation was that CO2 in a beaker traps heat more efficiently than air.
It looks like a 'new' field of science has just been invented by the mind of a layman ... paraphrasing: "CO2 in a beaker traps more heat than air" ... how does that work exactly?

What factors are at work here: conduction, absorption, emittance, reflection maybe?

Are you referring to a 'standard atmosphere' for the air parcel - can a greater amount of water vapor be specified to see how that affects the 'trapping' (your word) of 'heat'?

41 posted on 06/13/2007 9:14:51 PM PDT by _Jim (Highly recommended book on the Kennedy assassination - Posner: "Case Closed")
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To: _Jim
"What factors are at work here: conduction, absorption, emittance, reflection maybe?"

Absorption of longwave radiant energy.
42 posted on 06/13/2007 9:24:15 PM PDT by ndt
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To: ndt
So ... this CO2 continually absorbs longwave (radiant) energy?

Wouldn't this result in an ever-increasing temperature?

No emittance takes place what-so-ever?

43 posted on 06/13/2007 9:32:25 PM PDT by _Jim (Highly recommended book on the Kennedy assassination - Posner: "Case Closed")
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To: _Jim
"Wouldn't this result in an ever-increasing temperature?"

Well in the case of a beaker, which I assume we must have under a heat lamp the increasing difference between outside and inside temperatures would result in an increased rate of convective heat loss to the lab. Eventually reaching a stable temperature at an ever so slightly higher temperature.

Let me guess, you are going to take a simple statement that is clearly accurate (i.e. C02 traps heat more efficiently then air) and rather then point out the flaw that you appear to think is there, you will try to question in greater and greater detail until I just go away. That about right?

So here. Just tell me what is wrong with the statement so we can cut to the chase and save both our times.
44 posted on 06/13/2007 9:39:55 PM PDT by ndt
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To: ndt
I want you to explain how the 'heat trapping' takes place with CO2.

Then I would like a comparison made with water vapor.

Then we might go into how that translates into other scenarios.

45 posted on 06/13/2007 9:44:27 PM PDT by _Jim (Highly recommended book on the Kennedy assassination - Posner: "Case Closed")
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To: _Jim
"I want you to explain how the 'heat trapping' takes place with CO2."

I will on one condition. You first answer the question...

Does CO2 trap heat more efficiently than common air?
46 posted on 06/13/2007 9:46:36 PM PDT by ndt
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To: _Jim

OK, now I see where you are going with this.

The question should be with water vapor being equivalent, does air with a higher percentage of CO2 trap heat better then air with a lower percentage of CO2.

Does that make you happier?


47 posted on 06/13/2007 9:50:14 PM PDT by ndt
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To: Moonman62
"The problem with hydrates is getting them from where they are to a place where we can use them."

Yep, it all boils down to efficiency. IIRC Oil takes 1 unit of energy for a return of 4 units of energy. (Drilling, storage, transportation, refining)

The best return on energy invested in any of the "alternative" fuels at this time is 1 unit for 2 units. (according to all the info I can find on the net and books and such)

Until that changes or we run out of oil, Oil is gonna be our main energy source.

48 posted on 06/13/2007 9:51:59 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg ("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
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To: ndt
You first answer the question...
I dunno ... you have failed to answer several of my questions already.

I would feel more inclined to answer yours now *if* you had been more forthcoming earlier.

49 posted on 06/13/2007 9:52:43 PM PDT by _Jim (Highly recommended book on the Kennedy assassination - Posner: "Case Closed")
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To: _Jim
"I would feel more inclined to answer yours now *if* you had been more forthcoming earlier."

Seeing as it's the very core of what you chose to critique the fact that you would refuse to state your opinion on it is quite telling.
50 posted on 06/13/2007 9:54:48 PM PDT by ndt
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To: SunkenCiv

I don’t know if this will give us the energy independence we need, but it will lower my heating bill in the winter, now that I’m in a gas-using house.


51 posted on 06/14/2007 2:26:44 AM PDT by Berosus ("The candidates that can't face Fox News can't face Al Qaeda."--Roger Ailes)
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To: dwntmpo

> my car doesn’t run on natural gas.. saying a natural gas discovery is going to solve the oil problem is kinda like a shortage in gold being solved by discovering more zinc

Natural gas can be catalytically combined with oxygen to form methanol (quite easily, I might add). Methanol can be used directly in ‘flex-fuel’ cars, or it can be catalytically converted directly into gasoline.

http://yarchive.net/chem/gasoline_make.html

It’s not quite as simple as cracking crude oil into useful fuel fractions, but it’s not too difficult either.


52 posted on 06/14/2007 3:10:52 AM PDT by Mr170IQ
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