posted on Jul, 26 2013 @ 11:26 AM
I have noticed that methane is in the news again - one source predicts 60 billion dollars lost to the world economy if the arctic frozen methane
becomes unfrozen and airborne. Here is a link to an article with links to many other articles:
edwardmd.wordpress.com...
This morning, I remembered something my best friend told me a long time before all this global-warming and methane disaster hoopla began. Seems
people were wondering about unexplained airplane losses over the ocean, and one theory was that methane "burps" were disrupting engine combustion.
Some people decided to test the theory, and injected methane into the combustion gases of an airplane engine. The results surprised them - if I
recall what my friend told me correctly, it took only 2% to 5% methane in the air/fuel mix to shut down an engine. If all the methane in the
permafrost and at the ocean bottom became airborne, would it result in that high a percentage of methane in the atmosphere? I don't know, but if it
did, and all internal-combustion engines shut down, it would just about end our civilization. Maybe there are people here on ATS who can make an
educated guess...