[Bigg Red]

Very interesting. Sounds like the costs would be prohibitive, though, unless many technological breakthroughs occur.

[ckilmer]

I'm thinking that the USA will likely crack up if they don't expel the illegals here and restore the border. The ambitions of the Mexicans grow daily and they remember the
Alamo much better than Americans. They need to be stopped.

However, we need to find a way to make the Mexicans rich and help ourselves at the same time. The answer is to do the research requisite to kill the cost of water desalination. Dirt cheap desalinized water would turn the deserts green. They have a lot of deserts in Mexico.

[r9etb]

Very interesting. Sounds like the costs would be prohibitive, though, unless many technological breakthroughs occur.

They're assuming you need to carry this stuff around in solid form, but I don't see that that's necessary.

Seems to me that you could put that 164-1 expansion ratio to good use. Specifically, if you modified an oil platform to drill for this stuff instead of oil, you'd simply have a high-pressure gas line. Put storage tanks on the platform, and build some big-ass methane tankers, and you're done.