| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| Nick |
Are farts the new oil?http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227141.100-ice-on-fire-the-next-fossil-fuel.html?full=trueCould trapped methane save us? Or speed up The End Of The World? Interesting ideas in there. Might buy us another hundred years, or so. |
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| JB |
or then again maybe not
How Texas manure ethanol plan fell flat |
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| JB |
And it's a way to relase all those greenhouse gases that were trapped in and under the permafrost and so accelerate pollution and climate change! | ||||
| Mary-Jane |
Re: Are farts the new oil?
We're definitely self-sufficient at home on that basis... |
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| Northern_Lad |
Re: Are farts the new oil?
Well, if you didn't eat so many beans... |
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| Nick |
You've not read the article then? One of the latest extraction techniques is to pump CO2 under the ice, which gets stored preferentially to the methane. So, it can provide energy AND decrease atmospheric CO2. Assuming it doesn't cause a methane burp and that might smell Quite A Bit. |
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| sean |
Nahh, methane is odourless. | ||||
| Penny |
Re: Are farts the new oil?
We could power the village 
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| Mary-Jane |
Not when Gervase emits it it's not... 
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| Shane |
There's a lot of farts stored in the deeper parts of the world's oceans, too - although this is in the form of hydrates rather than clathrates. Once the technology to convert methane into liquid form on a boat is perfected (we're getting there), expect a rush to exploit these as well. | ||||
| Nick |
Are they Gervase's fault, too? | ||||
| tahir |
I don't see why he shouldn't be blamed. |
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| Shane |
Dunno - is he a scuba diver? | ||||
| bodger |
I thought that you were talking wet ones for a moment there.
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