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From: "Robin van Spaandonk"
> Also, the temperature will probably boil water converting
it to steam, so one should probably count on a mixed
H2/steam gas flow.
And neither steam or H2 can be activated easily by
radiation, therefore, in Russia at least, almost any
explosive that was not likely to be picked up as a test-ban
violation could have been used to pulverized the deep rock
formation in order to give a large surface area of active
material for underground thermo-chemical water-splitting....
>One problem may be that SiO2 (or silicates) may form a
coating over the silicides, preventing further reaction.
The cure: time for another large blast?
And it should be noted that iron and silica, being the most
abundant materials in the earth's mantle (with oxygen and
aluminum) would be expected to be found in enormous deposits
of un-oxidized or partially oxidized rock, whereas aluminum
is found always oxidized.
This is starting to sound plausible.... especially the
secrecy part. Why the secrecy?
Well, consider that the entire Russian economy (95% of it at
least) is built on natural gas euros coming in from Western
Europe, especially from Germany.
Imagine how the average German citizen would react if they
were to learn that - in the tens of billions of euros which
they send to Russia for the purchase of natural gas (being a
rather anti-nuclear country), that some of that gas comes
via H2 from a nuclear-produced deep fracture zone where H2
is produced from water and then converted to methane by the
reverse version of the Haber processes they invented in
WWII.
This would not be good PR if it were true.
Jones
And if not exactly correct, then to paraphrase Chesterton,
"All exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right
thing."
--- from: "On Gargoyles
GK also opined something to the effect of: ."A thing may be
too sad to be believed, or too wicked to be believed, or too
good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be
believed in a planet of platapi, anemone, tube-worms and
cuttle-fish."
