Oklahoma Geysers

[anotherdrew]

from: a description of sour gas, the most common type of natural gas that is mixed with a gas with smell:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.Article?article_id=10774">www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn....e_id=10774</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>For the ranchers and retirees of the sparsely populated Pincher Creek area - a municipal district of roughly a million acres surrounding a town of the same name - one concern is that most of the natural gas is "sour gas," named for the smell of a toxic component, hydrogen sulfide.<br><br>Gas in the region runs as high as one-third hydrogen sulfide, and <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>a single breath of air that contains one-tenth of 1 percent hydrogen sulfide (1,000 parts per million) is lethal.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Even a few parts per billion in the air can cause nausea, fatigue, dizziness, and sore eyes and throat.<br><br>Over the years, sour-gas leaks have occasionally triggered warnings, and even evacuations. Impacts can be hard to document, but one pipeline that corroded and leaked sour gas during the 1990s killed a nearby cow and calf.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>I'm trying to find a description of what this gas smells like but can't. No talk of "rotten egg smell" either to cover the sulpher dioxide possibility...<br><br>found a figure on a gov report that shows underground storage of NG does happen in OK... so perhaps this is a mishap, seems like a strange time of year to be messing around putting any down in storage, I'd think they'd only be withdrawing. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=anotherdrew>anotherdrew</A> at: 12/15/05 2:59 am<br></i>

[chiggerbit]

"seems like a strange time of year to be messing around putting any down in storage, I'd think they'd only be withdrawing." <br><br>Maybe you have discovered another conspiracy, anotherdrew.<br><br>Man I am getting tired of having to re-register every week. Didn't it used to be every month? <p></p><i></i>

[Sepka]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>I'm trying to find a description of what this gas smells like but can't. No talk of "rotten egg smell" either to cover the sulpher dioxide possibility...<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><br>Sulphur dioxide is that sharp, irritating smell that you get from burning sulphur. It's more of a sensation than a smell, since what's happening is that the gas is forming sulphurous acid (H2SO3) on contact with the water in your mucous membranes. Hydrogen sulphide is what accounts for the "rotten egg" smell. Both gasses are certainly fatal in sufficient concentrations, but the statement "a single breath of air that contains one-tenth of 1 percent hydrogen sulfide (1,000 parts per million) is lethal" is untrue.<br><br>Sulphur dioxide will kill 50% of an exposed population if breathed for one hour at concentrations of about 2500 parts per million. Hydrogen sulphide is deadlier, killing 50% at roughly 700 parts per million for one hour. It's almost certainly possible to kill oneself with a single sufficiently concentrated breath of hydrogen sulphide, but the concentration required would be very high.<br><br><br>MSDS for Sulphur Dioxide: <br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.scottecatalog.com/msds.nsf/0/495e7a1ae67734b485256a0a004e2f54?OpenDocument">www.scottecatalog.com/msd...enDocument</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>MSDS for Hydrogen Sulphide:<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.scottecatalog.com/msds.nsf/0/b01349853cc25df485256f2e006708f4?OpenDocument">www.scottecatalog.com/msd...enDocument</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>-Sepka the Space Weasel <p></p><i></i>

[Sweejak]

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/ExpandingEarth.html">www.nexusmagazine.com/art...Earth.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The proposed causal model for Earth expansion presented in my book involves the generation of and an increase in mass within the core. This new matter accumulates at the core–mantle interface and the increase in volume results in a swelling of the mantle. Mantle swell is then transferred to the outer crust as continental crustal extension and also extension along the mid-ocean-rift zones. This matter-generation process is considered ultimately to result in a decay of the matter-formation process within the core and cessation of expansion with time.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>

[chiggerbit]

So, does the earth "puff up", then release it's "steam", and settle back? That seems to me to possibly explain the Iowa Horst.<br><br>(Now, why do I have to re-register already? It's only been a couple of days.) <p></p><i></i>

[Sweejak]

Maybe that's what that squeaking sound is... I'm just waiting for it to pop.<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/8719/proldic2jq.jpg"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--> <p></p><i></i>