Hi Andrew and Renaud, SUGAR looks extremely dangerous to me. The animation here near the top of this page [1] gives an idea what they plan to do, by pumping in CO2 down some pipes and expecting all the methane to obediently return up the same pipes, with no thought for the masses of methane that will escape by bubbling up all over the surrounding seabed.
However, some of their underwater equipment might be useful for tracking down where the methane is coming from. URGENT REQUEST: I had booked to go to a workshop in Southampton on Friday about underwater autonomous gliders and sensors, run by an "Ocean Shelf-Edge" group, but am unable to go, so would be happy if somebody could take my place [2] and, if possible, report back to the Arctic methane workshop on Saturday [3] on the applicability of such submarine vehicles for seeking out methane plumes over very large remote areas like the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, ESAS. Such capability could be crucial for dealing with these plumes which threaten to release vast quantities of methane into the atmosphere and escalate global warming. Cheers from Chiswick, John [1] http://www.ifm-geomar.de/index.php?id=3563 [2] http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/programmes/shelfedge/events/111014/ [3] See yahoo group "arctic-methane" welcome message. --- On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Andrew Lockley <[email protected]>wrote: > "Renaud_de_RICHTER" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Dear All, > >> > >> Are you aware of the German “SUGAR projet”: Submarine > Gashydrat-Lagerstätten: Erkundung, Abbau und Transport? (exploration, > exploitation and transport of underwater deposits of gas hydrates) > >> It consists to develop new technologies to extract natural gas (methane) > from methane hydrates in the seabed and store CO2 safely in the same seabed. > >> > >> Press news : http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news437898 > >> > >> Website: http://www.ifm-geomar.de/index.php?id=3563 > >> > >> Documents (in German): http://www.ifm-geomar.de/index.php?id=5442 > >> > >> > http://www.umsicht.fraunhofer.de/de/geschaeftsfelder/prozesstechnik/projekte.html > >> > >> > http://www.umsicht.fraunhofer.de/de/geschaeftsfelder/prozesstechnik/projekte/gashydrate1.html > >> > >> > >> Best regards > >> Renaud de Richter > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en.
