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New Evidence For Oceans of Water Deep In the Earth
techtech (2016646) writes Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico report evidence for potentially oceans worth of water deep beneath the United States. Though not in the familiar liquid form—the ingredients for water are bound up in rock deep in the Earth's mantle—the discovery may represent the planet's largest water reservoir.
This research was published in Science.
Let's get down! Down deep!
This will be a new application for hydraulic fracturing to release the water from the rock.
I tried to look for info regarding this matter but apparently they are all behind paywalls
Is there any info that one can get without having to pay ?
Thank you !
Another irreplaceable resource to exploit an make a buck!
We will need much of this so-called "hydraulic liquid" (and maybe a few other chemicals) in order to release the water!
Hydroxide is not water.
Does it mean hygrogen & oxigen are separately bound up in rock?
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At first I thought this might be impossible to build a well to get at this water as the well pump would require nuclear reactors to power it. Then again it might be hot enough down at these depths to get steam up the well, but what kind of material would line the drill hole to prevent its collapse? This water is not going to solve the need for water in California's Central Valley anytime soon.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
It's still easier to get fresh water from the atmosphere. Since it falls down freely, we just have to harvest it. I mean, the deepest hole we've dug is what, five miles? Let's just wait for it to seep out, like the methane and oil do. Besides we are only using about one percent of the water we have on or above the surface. The "crisis" is in management, not supply.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
For as much contrivocery as there is in the biblical history, only recently some of the evidence supporting it is starting to show up in science. First the discovery of the "Big Bang" and the Genisis creation story. In the beginning there was nothing, and then it exploded or something like that.
The entire earth was covered in a flood, poor Noah. Hmm, now we find the flood drained somewhere. Is the Great Flood of Noah fiction? I have my doubts. Some of the stories are beginning to be supported by recent discoveries. How did they possibly get it right so many years ago?
Maybe there is another explination we will find.
The truth shall set you free!
Seriously, this could be where a lot of Mar's water went. That is under Martian surface.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
So rock contains water? That's not new.
Mineral hydration? I guess even rocks love Brawndo. It's got electrolytes. That's what rocks crave!
"a hydroxyl radical (OH), which can be bound into a mineral's crystal structure."
Oceans of water? OH, no!
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
Well AC, I understand the haughty "green" derision that is so fashionable these days, but you have to understand that you most likely wouldn't be here to bitch about all of this "wasted" water if it weren't for the fact we "waste" so much water. Proper water treatment facilities, wastewater management, and just good ol general sanitation are the reason we don't worry about dying of dysentery, cholera, and many other pathogens these days. Third world nations still using old fashioned cesspits do worry about these. Evidently there's even a trend for Crone's sufferers that involve infecting yourself with tapeworms and the pioneer of this method went to Africa to stand around barefoot all day in these public cesspits to get infected. Why? Because America is too clean! So be aware that if we go back to these "greener" methods, you'll need to be sure you're wearing some shit waders cause it'd be a damned shame if you got a tapeworm when you jumped down off your high horse.
Why in the hell would you do that? Killing yourself doesn't stop this retard from retardedly spewing his retarded beliefs and making other retards believe the same retarded shit. Kill HIM instead, DUH!
Never go full retard!
Maybe this explains where God got the extra water to flood the earth. I don't believe that story, but one of the many arguments to refute the Ark story being true is that there wasn't enough water to flood the Earth.
tries to pollute it? Since their kind hates nature, it won't be long. I know here in CA they constantly fight to increase pollution levels. Several have even been caught trying to sabotage infrastructure like the Bay Bridge. They hate minorities so they tried to destroy the bridge. All they did was waste money in repairs which also makes their kind so happy. They want to keep raising taxes until no one, other than rich old white men, can afford to work.
"but one of the many arguments to refute the Ark story being true is that there wasn't enough water to flood the Earth."
Really? Trying to claim that ommnipotent GOD didn't have enough water to do something? If GOD is so GODLY as religious people say there didn't even have to be flood "for real". God could have just moved everything into new position, altered everyones memories, and there, a big flood just happened without any "real" water at all. When discussing what GOD can or cannot do you might as well be discussing if unicorn can fly or not. It kinda depends how you want to imagine them. Same with GOD. Refuting some bible stories is just bloody stupid, refute Lord of the Rings instead, you'll have more fun, and the opponents don't hopefully actually take it seriously enough to be mental patients if their delusion was anything but GOD.
......can't wait to pollute this, too.
Religous speak to God. Insane are spoken to by God. When all shut up, one can finally hear Shostakovich in peace
The plot of the SF novels "Flood" and "Ark" by Stephen Baxter is that huge water reservoirs beneath the earth's crust get released to the surface, which raises the ocean levels until all land is under water.
How is it different than gypsum, CaSO4-2H2O?
What! You mean a grumpy slashdotter can't just come up with a remarkably brilliant solution to solve the world's problems in just 30 seconds of thinking?
http://xkcd.com/793/
Don't we have enough water here on the surface? Oceans of water? We have 5 of them on the surface, right?
Anyone complaining that there is not enough water in the Pacific Ocean?
Wait, fresh water you mean?
Sorry, I do not know that fresh water exists in the oceans, at least that's not the case on the surface.
Is that the case in the mantle?
Do you think there's life down there?
So, the rock breaks up and water flows; a big enough break and it becomes a massive discharge into the atmosphere which then comes back down as one heck of a deluge. Interesting.
... tl:dr - google Thomas Gold Deep Hot Biosphere.
Kind of nice to know momma earth is a good place to be.
"Consensus" in science is _always_ a political construct.
That's a familiar story. I had a 5 digit UID until I lost access to the email account I had used to set it up. But also I was then posting under a nick I no longer have a need for: mysticgoat or mysticgoat1993 or something like that. Now I'm retired and no longer have to preserve a professional persona. So even if I had access to my old account, I would not use it, since slashdot in its wisdom does not allow the username on an account to be changed. I understand the reasoning behind that, and do not disagree with it. Sucks to have been Mystic Goat.
Now I have a 7 digit UID. For a while I was often mistaken as a youngster, but due to my inherently churlish nature, I'm quickly seen as the curmudgeon I have always been.
Unless you're pushing a lawnmower, get off my lawn.
Will
given the current state of pollution and human 'intelligence' is best to not spoil any backup resources until we advanced enough to keep what we have in a decent state.....
Evidence for both. This study leans toward outgassing.
Balls Deep.
Where's the giant cavern with the ocean, and the dinosaurs? Esp. the dinosaurs!
mark "paging Mr. Verne! Paging Mr. Verne!"
By this logic I shit diamonds! Hey, there's a lot of carbon bound up in human waste. Carbon is an (nay, the) ingredient in diamond, therefore New Evidence For Oceans of Diamonds Deep In The Sewer.
Chelloveck
I give up on debugging. From now on, SIGSEGV is a feature.
News Flash - NASA announced the 'possibility' of life deep underground on the planet Earth after sensors detected the presence of water at depths of 450 miles below the surface. Senior scientist [woman's name here] said "we should not rule out the possibility and should immediately add funding and send a probe. Yes the temperature and pressures in this strange world are incredible but [add name of odd and rare species of something that resembles paint flaking off an old piece wood] is an extreme lifeform that is found in [name of somewhere really nasty] here at home."
Sounds like the perfect spot to dump all of our nuclear waste.