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Hydrocarbon Reserves on Titan
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post Feb 13 2008, 08:49 PM
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The latest news about Titan reveal that, according to a study led by Ralph Lorenz, the orange moon has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth.
This estimate is close to the estimate made by independant authors, presented at the following webpage: http://www.planetaryphysics.com/Researchwo...lakes281007.htm
The authors conclude that the liquid hydrocarbon reserves in Titan's arctic lakes might well be at least 650 times greater than the proven oil reserves on Earth. The key factor for obtaining the estimate appears to be the mean depth, postulated to be 250 meters, here.
Unfortunately, it won't change anything on oil prices! ( unless speculators...)
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- Webscientist   Hydrocarbon Reserves on Titan   Feb 13 2008, 08:49 PM
- - nprev   Unfortunately, gas would have to hit a few tens of...   Feb 13 2008, 09:05 PM
- - Juramike   Awesome! We can "crack" water to ma...   Feb 13 2008, 09:21 PM
|- - JRehling   The bright side is that even if you did increase T...   Feb 13 2008, 11:28 PM
- - nprev   Yep...you just coined the first slogan for the Tit...   Feb 13 2008, 11:09 PM
- - volcanopele   Blar! I was hoping no one would realize how m...   Feb 13 2008, 11:16 PM
- - nprev   Hmm. You raise an interesting question, JR, though...   Feb 14 2008, 03:17 AM
- - volcanopele   I figure it will be resolved the same way Georgian...   Feb 14 2008, 03:48 AM
|- - Rob Pinnegar   Besides that, place names can change over time. If...   Feb 14 2008, 05:16 AM
- - rlorenz   QUOTE (Webscientist @ Feb 13 2008, 03:49 ...   Feb 14 2008, 03:42 PM
- - tty   Spreading hothouse gases on Titan is certainly an ...   Feb 14 2008, 08:46 PM
- - volcanopele   Personally, I think colonists would use what ever ...   Feb 14 2008, 08:53 PM
|- - Juramike   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Feb 14 2008, 03:53 P...   Feb 14 2008, 09:43 PM
|- - helvick   How (exactly) are our colonists going to liberate ...   Feb 14 2008, 09:50 PM
- - Juramike   Oxygen from electrolysis of water. Wind power gen...   Feb 14 2008, 10:31 PM
|- - helvick   Hmmh - it's doable but some back of the envelo...   Feb 14 2008, 11:39 PM
||- - tty   QUOTE (helvick @ Feb 15 2008, 12:39 AM) A...   Feb 15 2008, 01:17 PM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (Juramike @ Feb 14 2008, 05:31 PM) ...   Feb 15 2008, 12:17 AM
|- - Juramike   QUOTE (centsworth_II @ Feb 14 2008, 07:17...   Feb 15 2008, 12:57 AM
- - EckJerome   If you'll forgive an old lurker interjecting a...   Feb 15 2008, 07:12 PM
|- - dburt   QUOTE (EckJerome @ Feb 15 2008, 12:12 PM)...   Feb 15 2008, 10:10 PM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (EckJerome @ Feb 15 2008, 02:12 PM)...   Feb 16 2008, 07:48 AM
- - EckJerome   Perhaps I was a bit ignorant in my statement of th...   Feb 16 2008, 12:00 AM
- - dburt   Vast experience and an unusual aptitude for visual...   Feb 16 2008, 01:53 AM

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