China is counting on a "disposable burning ice" to meet the growing demand for energy

China is counting on a "disposable burning ice" to meet the growing demand for energy




China intensify drilling in the seabed in search of "Negotiable burning ice", which is the source of fossil energy provides methane gas, but the use of it may take at least 10 years globally.

This "ice" author actually trapped inside frozen water molecules of methane molecules. It can be found at the bottom of the ocean or in the permafrost in the polar regions, but extraction is very difficult and expensive process.

China is one of the few countries that intend to benefit from this source to meet the growing demand for energy.

Beijing has recently announced a "historic breakthrough" following the successful drilling operations in the South China Sea, after the research lasted for almost two decades.

Within six weeks, China has unearthed more than 235 thousand cubic meters of "water methane" of water, about 300 kilometers southeast of the city of Zhuhai (far south), according to national geological authorities.

The head of the Department of Marine Geology in the city of Gwangju Yi Jianlong (South), which oversees the excavation work "China has surpassed expectations in the search for ice testing disposable burning thanks to the use of innovations in the field of national technology."

- Future Energy? -

The per cubic meter of water methane known as "disposable burning ice" that generates 164 cubic meters of methane gas, according to the US Department of Energy.

The different estimates of global energy stocks these different bodies, but they may go beyond "all known stocks and other fossil energy sources even today," according to the United States.

Independent analysts and show reservations about evaluating the scope of the fields, but they assert that the stock extends over vast areas, what may "change the equation" for countries that have limited access to traditional fossil energy sources.

He explained Ingo Baisher, a lecturer at the Faculty of Science at the University of Auckland Australian "Japan's best example. It is not a lot of traditional gas could be a great stock for them. "

Japan relies heavily on liquefied natural gas import operations, because the majority of nuclear reactors stopped working in the country, six years after the Fukushima disaster.

Baisher stressed that "the economic equation large part of it."

Stocks have been spotted "disposable burning ice" across the whole world, from New Zealand to Alaska, but the challenge requires finding a very rich fields of ice easily accessible.

- 10 years -

Several countries intend to take advantage of this type of ice disposable burning. Excavation work conducted by Japan off the east coast has been successful. The United States also reached positive results following the operations conducted in the Gulf of Mexico.

However, the effective organization of production at the economic level, "it may take 10 years," according to Paul Dzerlo Group General Manager, "Boston Consulting Group" taken in the Tokyo-based.

In the opinion of Chinese experts in ice disposable burning, it may generate this energy source of profits from "approximately 2030".

Doerlo "We know the whereabouts of stocks and we have the technology needed, but the quantity of production is not enough on the commercial level, given the current price."

Methane is extracted after the heating process or by reducing the pressure inside the wells in order to dismantle the molecules.

Other difficulties, the risk of the spread of methane, a gas cause of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, according to Yuan Zhou, a lecturer in the Department of Geography and Resource Management at the University of Hong Kong Chinese.

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