The end of the world

[imamartian]

geraint = imamartians b1tch..... down boy !

 

[regsmyth]

I presume you are well enough informed to be aware of the sales of stocks and shares of the various companies just a few days before the leak "happened". If not, why not? Put down your tools and do some research!

 

[imamartian]

I presume you are well enough informed to be aware of the sales of stocks and shares of the various companies just a few days before the leak "happened". If not, why not? Put down your tools and do some research!

more to the point, let the political/financial giants do their dealings.... we don't have a say... we are insignificant... a bit like that ant on your car tyre when you start up you engine..... will it survive?... will it get squidged?

 

[conny]

Yes he will, but some of his mates further round the wheel will hide in betwen the treads and then go on to re-produce thousands more.

If its going to happen its going to happen.

Look at life this way, if you wake up in the morning you've got through another day.

 

[joe-90]

Well the new cap is holding at the moment but if those reports of fissures and rising sea beds are true then as the pressure builds it just may make things worse.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...since-april-blowout-2027817.html?action=Popup

 

[HOGGY952]

There is more than one leak and that is what they are worried about.

There is a huge methane deposit under the GoM and if it comes out then the linked report above is the worst case scenario.

They don't know what will happen when they back up the pipe with a cap. All that pressure has to go somewhere and there is a very real danger than the sea floor could crack and collapse.

God I could talk for hours about this. Been keeping a close eye on it for ages now.

Hoggy with respect... you reckon a small hyperdermic needle sized p***k in some rock is literally Earth shattering news, compared to the power of two massive tectonic plates wreaking havoc? which has regularly happened for millions of years?

imamartian,with respect,they are two different events.

An earthquake,even a mega earthquake,does not have the power to be an extinction event.
Methane release has already been proven to have caused extinction events in the past.

You have to,without sounding disrespectful,try to understand what a massive methane pocket quickly released under this kind of pressure can do.

For an experiment on pressure and state. Buy a glass bottle of coke.It has to be glass.

Now put it in the freezer overnight. It won't freeze. It can't freeze under pressure from the bottle and lid.

Take it out and open it and watch it freeze instantly. After you open the lid, and relieve the pressure, the entire thing changes state at one time!

Imagine a much more dramatic version of this experiment. DON"T TRY IT! But imagine if you had heated that bottle to several hundred degrees. It couldn't boil, because of the pressure, but as soon as you popped the lid, the entire thing would boil instantly, and you would have a whole room full of super-heated steam explode out of the neck of that bottle instantly!!

That is how people get burned by radiators on oveheating cars. They release the pressure on a radiator by removing the cap. 2 gallons of super heated water becomes several hundred gallons of steam blasting out at them in an instant!

Now imagine the Gulf as a giant radiator, and the cap being 5000 feet of sea water. Then something comes along and stirs up that water and the cap isn't on so good anymore. To make matters worse,instead of steam,we have a flammable gas and vapor that could potentially explode in addition to just expanding.

The highlighted part is the thing to remember. It would create a mega-tsunami hundreds of feet high that nothing would stop.
The article linked is a bit ott. It wouldn't be a world killing event but Florida would be gone for a start.

So a small ***** would leave millions dead. The Gulf of Mexico is one place you shouldn't really be drilling into because of the huge pressures under the ocean floor with these methane pockets.

 

[Infidel]

WTF are you lot on about we have been drilling into pockets of methane for years in the North sea and all over the planet.

Typical Composition of Natural Gas
Methane CH4 70-90%
Ethane C2H6 0-20%
Propane C3H8
Butane C4H10
Carbon Dioxide CO2 0-8%
Oxygen O2 0-0.2%
Nitrogen N2 0-5%
Hydrogen sulphide H2S 0-5%
Rare gases A, He, Ne, Xe trace

****s

 

[joe-90]

What leads you to think that all methane pockets are under the same pressure?


T**t

 

[Blasphemous]

So many egos in such a small and insignificant forum.

 

[imamartian]

There is more than one leak and that is what they are worried about.

There is a huge methane deposit under the GoM and if it comes out then the linked report above is the worst case scenario.

They don't know what will happen when they back up the pipe with a cap. All that pressure has to go somewhere and there is a very real danger than the sea floor could crack and collapse.

God I could talk for hours about this. Been keeping a close eye on it for ages now.

Hoggy with respect... you reckon a small hyperdermic needle sized p***k in some rock is literally Earth shattering news, compared to the power of two massive tectonic plates wreaking havoc? which has regularly happened for millions of years?

imamartian,with respect,they are two different events.

An earthquake,even a mega earthquake,does not have the power to be an extinction event.
Methane release has already been proven to have caused extinction events in the past.

You have to,without sounding disrespectful,try to understand what a massive methane pocket quickly released under this kind of pressure can do.

For an experiment on pressure and state. Buy a glass bottle of coke.It has to be glass.

Now put it in the freezer overnight. It won't freeze. It can't freeze under pressure from the bottle and lid.

Take it out and open it and watch it freeze instantly. After you open the lid, and relieve the pressure, the entire thing changes state at one time!

Imagine a much more dramatic version of this experiment. DON"T TRY IT! But imagine if you had heated that bottle to several hundred degrees. It couldn't boil, because of the pressure, but as soon as you popped the lid, the entire thing would boil instantly, and you would have a whole room full of super-heated steam explode out of the neck of that bottle instantly!!

That is how people get burned by radiators on oveheating cars. They release the pressure on a radiator by removing the cap. 2 gallons of super heated water becomes several hundred gallons of steam blasting out at them in an instant!

Now imagine the Gulf as a giant radiator, and the cap being 5000 feet of sea water. Then something comes along and stirs up that water and the cap isn't on so good anymore. To make matters worse,instead of steam,we have a flammable gas and vapor that could potentially explode in addition to just expanding.

The highlighted part is the thing to remember. It would create a mega-tsunami hundreds of feet high that nothing would stop.
The article linked is a bit ott. It wouldn't be a world killing event but Florida would be gone for a start.

So a small ***** would leave millions dead. The Gulf of Mexico is one place you shouldn't really be drilling into because of the huge pressures under the ocean floor with these methane pockets.

Interesting stuff Hoggy..