Will 2024 be the tipping point for Methane Hydrates? thedailyblog.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thedailyblog.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
New research has shown that frozen methane which is trapped as a solid under our oceans is vulnerable to melting due to climate change and could be released into the sea as greenhouse gas.
Here s how Earth-like landscapes may have formed on Saturn s moon Titan - In the new study, researchers have tried to explain the presence of sand dunes in Titan. This process has been found similar to that of Earth.
be pumped up to the awaiting ship by pumping hot water down. basically the top hat as it s called is a smaller version of the containment dome that failed on saturday as it got clogged up with methane hydrates. basically slush-like ice crystals. while the idea to keep that from forming on the top hat is because it s 5,000 feet below the surface, very cold down there. what you have is a pipe within a pipe. the oil goes up the inner pipe and hot water is going down the outer tube, keeping the inner tube from freezing. shepard: sort of another example of how desperate they are and how much of a pipe dream this is, they are actually talking about maybe shooting garbage into the thing to try to stop it. yeah, they call it a junk shot or a top kill. this is actually been done in the desert out in iraq after the initial desert storm gulf war in 1990 and 91. never been tried at 5,000 feet below but essentially have a big 5,000-foot pipeline going down
westward past the mouth of the mississippi, and that has a whole lot of people concerned not only around the gulf coast states but throughout the rest of the country because the mississippi river is a major highway of transportation as far as shipping and traffic of merchant goods to get in and out of the country and from state to state. gregg: how does bp hope to remedy this dome plan? reporter: they haven t given up on the 100-ton containment dome just yet. the issue down below is 5,000 feet below the surface it s very cold down there and you have the pressure of that depth. they noticed the methane hydrates, basically slush are you ice crystals were forming and clogging the pipes that would take the oil up to the waiting ship. so they are thinking of maybe flushing hot water down the