From: Rüdiger Koch (rkoch@rkoch.org)
Date: Wed Apr 17 2002 - 05:12:35 MDT
You guys are pretty negative. Given the quantities this is about I'd say that
even a 1% chance to overcome the problems should warrant to put EUR100M into
investigating that. It's clear that traditional mining and driving out the
gas with heat is not applicable here. Maybe someone else has other means.
Eric Drexler might have an idea if you give him half of those EUR100M.
-Rudiger
On Wednesday 17 April 2002 10:14, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, spike66 wrote:
> > Bogosity meter pegged. 1000 liters of hydrogen is close enough to 90
> > grams. Not enough energy in 90 grams of hydrogen when combined with
> > oxygen in air to do much with a cubic meter of rock. spike
>
> I believe the idea is to look for liberated hydrogen accumulated in traps.
> Given that virtually no high-hydrogen geogas sources are known, it must be
> either damn rare, or be too deep (I believe 20 miles were mentioned, even
> if the averade depth was just a few km that'd put it out of reach in most
> places.
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