bonanza

Chapter 487 Combustible Ice

"Methane, why is there so much methane here? More importantly, why didn't they drift away? The rock formations and soil layers here shouldn't be able to store methane! Methane, water, methane and water..."

Yang Dongsheng read it silently a few times, and suddenly understood what it was - methane hydrate, this is combustible ice!

Yang Dongsheng immediately found a computer and checked it on Yahoo.

Methane hydrate is an ice-like substance formed by methane and water under high-pressure and low-temperature conditions. It is also called "combustible ice" because it can be ignited directly.

Combustible ice is mainly distributed in the deep sea, but also in land permafrost.

Combustible ice has been found in the permafrost of Siberia and Alaska.

"If it's really combustible ice, it should be solid, right?"

Yang Dongsheng got a small piece of combustible ice and tried to drag it down.

The small piece of combustible ice really moved, and Yang Dongsheng was so excited.

According to information obtained from James Whistler, this forest farm covers an area of ​​more than 300 square kilometers, and the thickness of combustible ice ranges from tens of meters to hundreds of meters. Even if the average thickness is 100 meters, there are more than 300 billion cubic meters. m of combustible ice.

根据网上的介绍，1立方米可燃冰可转化为164立方米的天然气和0.8立方米的水，300多亿立方米可燃冰就可以转化为5万亿立方米天然气。

We must know that the proven reserves of natural gas in China as a whole are only a little over 5 trillion cubic meters.

Even if these natural combustible ice is impure, if half of it is removed, there will be 2.5 trillion cubic meters.

A natural gas field with a reserve of 2.5 trillion cubic meters can definitely rank among the top five in the world.

This is only more than 300 square kilometers of land containing combustible ice. In the entire northern part of Canada, there are at least millions of square kilometers of land containing combustible ice.

There are also Siberia, Greenland, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and Alaska...the reserves of combustible ice in these land areas alone are an astronomical figure.

"It really happened this time!"

At this time, the consumption of natural gas in China as a whole is growing rapidly. If Yang Dongsheng remembers correctly, in a few years, China will start the West-East Gas Pipeline Project.

This is due to the lack of natural gas in China, the technology of gas turbines is not up to standard, and natural gas is mainly limited to civilian use.

Internationally, industry is the largest consumer of natural gas - natural gas for power generation, methanol from natural gas, ammonia from natural gas, and injection of natural gas into blast furnaces...

And in the future, with the prevalence of environmentalism and the abolition of nuclear weapons in some countries and regions, the demand for natural gas will increase.

Yang Dongsheng picked up the phone and called James Whistler again, "Mr. Whistler, I heard a new piece of news about the coalbed methane license. The phone said it was not right. Let's meet and talk in Shanghai. !"

Yang Dongsheng wants James Whistler to buy more forests and ice fields in northern Canada, and also wants James Whistler to buy some natural gas fields in North America and Northern Europe to enter the big market of Europe and America.

Putting down the phone, Yang Dongsheng suddenly found that the piece of combustible ice that he moved down just now was slowly melting.

Hastily moved this piece of combustible ice up for a certain distance, and the combustible ice stopped dissipating.

At this time, the northern part of Canada is already in extremely cold weather of tens of degrees below zero. The combustible ice is very stable until it is close to the ground, but it moves downward. Once it exceeds the burial depth of the combustible ice, even if the pressure is greater, the combustible ice It will also melt because the temperature is too high.

Yang Dongsheng simply moved the small piece of combustible ice to an area of ​​the Shunhe Coal Mine where coalbed methane was being exploited. The combustible ice melted rapidly, and the gas pumped out of the pipeline also increased rapidly.

Before Yang Dongsheng had time to be happy, he saw that the entire Shunhe Coal Mine was going crazy—there was too much gas gushing out.

Yang Dongsheng quickly moved the combustible ice back to the Canadian forest farm.

The environment for the formation of combustible ice is complicated, and a slight misuse will lead to major accidents. This is also a technical difficulty in combustible ice mining.

No country can solve the problem of combustible ice development until later generations.

Suddenly there was a tsunami-like shout from downstairs, and Yang Dongsheng glanced down, only to find that the boys and girls downstairs were struggling to wave upstairs.

Yang Dongsheng glanced to the side, only to see a few people next door with colorfully dyed hair, who didn't know if it was a man or a woman, waving downstairs.

All the boys and girls downstairs were already crying.

A few girls were even more exaggerated, and those who cried couldn't stand anymore.

Yang Dongsheng thought that even when their parents died in the future, they might not be so sad.

Yang Dongsheng also really admired these little girls. The winter in Korea is very cold, and these little girls wore skirts that showed their thighs, and they stayed here for several days.

Yang Dongsheng was not in a hurry to return to Shanghai, it only took more than an hour to fly from Seoul to Shanghai.

James Whistler is in New York at this time, dealing with the finishing work of shorting the Korean company, and it will take at least one day to fly from New York to Shanghai, plus the time required for the midway transfer.

I continued to stay in South Korea for two days, and there was news from various sources. Newspapers such as "New York Times", "Washington Post", "The Times", "Yomiuri Shimbun" all reprinted reports on South Korea's air quality.

Even Chosun Ilbo, South Korea's own largest newspaper, reprinted the report, and it was the headline on the front page.

Yahoo naturally reprinted the report.

For a while, the entire Western countries seemed to have forgotten that there were still large areas of brown land in their own country, and the air quality had not improved for a few years.

Yang Dongsheng is not surprised by this, and global warming is an obvious example.

After some countries complete their own industries, they want to lock up the rising channels of later developing countries and prevent them from industrializing, so the normal climate warming is caused by pollution.

Yang Dongsheng returned to Shanghai when the whole of South Korea was already in turmoil.

Today is a rare sunny day. Although Dongsheng Building is just a younger brother compared to the Jinmao Building not far away, it is on the bank of the Huangpu River. There is no shelter in front of it, and you can see far away.

The sun shines from the east, and the whole city seems to be covered with a layer of gold.

On the Bund road opposite, cars were running around like ants.

The Huangpu River seems to be under your feet, and the boats on the river are constantly coming and going.

"Mr. Yang, Mr. Whistler is here!" Director Li came in.

Not long after, James Whistler came over.

After some polite greetings, the others left the office.

The first sentence James Whistler opened his mouth was, "Boss, the Mongols want to take back our land."

(End of this chapter)