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China To Tap Combustible Ice As New Energy Source
lilbridge writes "Huge reserves of "combustible ice" — frozen methane and water — have been discovered in the tundra of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China. Estimates show that there is enough combustible ice to provide 90 years worth of energy for China. Burning the combustible ice may be a far better alternative than letting it just melt, releasing tons of methane into the air."
Yeah, when hell freezes over...
I had no idea those Japanese pillows could complain.
I wonder what the downside is.
The gas is probably under a monastery of tibetan monks?
(b) You're correct - oxidation of one CH4 molecule produces one CO2 molecule and two H2O molecules.
Wait, your saying that using Methane as a fuel source will somehow create dihydrogen monoxide? And in twice the quantity that existed of mere methane?
Do you understand the danger? I suggest you educate yourself friend (http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html). Dihydrogen monoxide was consumed by every murderer on record at least 24 hours before their crimes! Releasing this much of the stuff in reckless!
And who wants to move to somewhere that is cold, inhospitable, underdeveloped and filled with relatively unfriendly people?
Leave Quebec out of this.
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
No, you see. Tibet had all that explosive ice -- essentially weapons of mass destruction. And this threatened China, who didn't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud. So Shock and Awe was the only answer, an invasion that would only last a few weeks, and be paid for with the oil.
Oh Sorry, were we talking about CHINA? I'm sure the Chinese feel that what happened to Tibet was fo their own good, just as most Americans think what happened in Iraq was for their own good. Amazing how propaganda can influence the masses, eh? Just keep on watching Faux News and you'll even believe that 99% of Americans don't want Health care reform...
Ah, ignorance is strength.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
Seems too good to be true. I wonder what the downside is.
The cold fart smell.