Re: What if the world runs out of gas?

Posted by IHank on September 17, 2000 at 13:31:42 from (207.177.47.187):

In Reply to: What if the world runs out of gas? posted by PoppinJohnny on September 17, 2000 at 11:18:55:

Poppin Johnny- Sir, several years ago Popular Science Magazine had a very interesting article about methane gas that is frozen into something like layers of ice under the sea floors.

The article told about gas forming way down in the earth and seeping up. When it gets to the cold mud layer on the ocean floor and immense pressure down there, the stuff condenses and freezes into a solid state, way down below the thick layer of sea bottom "mud".

The article speculated that the potential supply of "methane ice" exceeded world energy needs for a long time to come.

It touched on theories about mysteriously disappearing ships, by telling that if/when one of them layers broke thru the mud layer and floated up, it would rapidly return to the gaseous state. All that gas foaming up the sea water would cause the water density to rapidly and drastically decline. Ship bouyancy numbers would no longer work out and anything floating over it would sink like a rock.

New technology would be needed to harvest the methane ice. Doing so would drastically upset the balance of power in the energy supply industry and markets. All very interesting.

Like the old bumper stickers around here say, "Eat more beans, Iowa needs gas!" Grins, IHank

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