@mattphat23 : I think the same applies to lighting a bottle filled with gas. It needs the right mixture of gas and air (oxygen) to become explosive.
Since the lake is probably stuffed with lots of methane (which is obviously under pressure, because it would not come out of a hole drilled in the ice) air just can't get under the ice.
Methane is odorless. What is the woman in the video smelling? Hopefully not an odorant like you would add to an artificially produced concentration, as a safety precaution.
What about a flowback?where the flames follow the gas down into the methane pocket causing an explosian?
TheCombatarmshero 1 month ago
@erniewilson1 The earth's survived a lot worse. So has life on this little insignificant rock.
ba3cool 1 year ago
what if by igniting it, a huge methane bubble was ignited resulting in a huge, deathly explosion. is this not possible?
mattphat23 1 year ago
@mattphat23 probly not unless it was mixed with the right proportion of oxygen under the ice...then it could go boom
1ukjunglednbraver 1 year ago
@mattphat23 : I think the same applies to lighting a bottle filled with gas. It needs the right mixture of gas and air (oxygen) to become explosive.
Since the lake is probably stuffed with lots of methane (which is obviously under pressure, because it would not come out of a hole drilled in the ice) air just can't get under the ice.
Dutch3DMaster 1 year ago
"Concentration, flux, age.."
Flux? - what the fuck?
ImpliedBodyMan 1 year ago
Just wait until enough oxygen can make its way inside a pocket with the methane, at first you'll have flame...
hmmmm that is amaizing, get closer!
BOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!
Dead
mastermakerhacker 2 years ago
Um. Im sorry. But at this point, the implications of this footage are flat out, fucking horrifying.
Not to be an alarmist or anything...
scarletletterman84 2 years ago 2
True, methane is odorless. However, the same natural process that releases methane also releases sulfuric gases, which do smell like rotten eggs.
907kat 2 years ago
dont know about that,, but by law a chemical substance similar to sulfuric acid is added to methane to make people aware of it when its exposed
ikambor 2 years ago
Methane is odorless. What is the woman in the video smelling? Hopefully not an odorant like you would add to an artificially produced concentration, as a safety precaution.
CrazyHorseInvincible 2 years ago
SMOOREZ mmmmmmmmmmm!
giant648 2 years ago
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See the hose lower left? Notice that the pressure is too high to keep a flame at first. Then they turn down the pressure and the flame stay lit.
THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!
chrgis 2 years ago
See the hose lower left? Notice that the pressure is too high to keep a flame at first. Then they turn down the pressure and the flame stay lit.
THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!
chrgis 2 years ago
Not really, it is a natural byproduct of the decay of leaf matter. The ice traps bubbles that would normally just disapate into the air.
yeshuason 3 years ago
It's cool and you can cook your hot dogs, but the implications...
we really are screwed, aren't we...?
sma1968 3 years ago