"This video, recorded in November of 2007, on a lake near Fairbanks, shows Walter and a research team drilling a hole through lake ice, then lighting the escaping methane. This video was shot by Carla Browning of University Relations at the University of Alaska Fairbanks." - from Alaska.edu
greetings comrades ok ...so you got a lake topped with ice which has trapped a considerable amount of methane, and this "scientist" decides to light it on fire???? ..... i'm surprised the video didn't end with one huge blinding flash
this video's nothing!
i got drunk once and was taking a dump in a public toilet without lights. i lit a match to see what i was doing and threw it in the bowl. the gas caught fire and blew me six feet in the air and burned all the hairs off my ass.
So how come we never hear of ice fishing houses blowing sky high, from filling with methane, and having guys smoking inside? Many of these icehouses go pretty far to keep the hole sealed with the icehouse, so the cold wind doesn't get in. Must not be enough methane...
There needs to be a thick layer of rotting muck to produce the methane, so... I would guess, that in large ponds and lakes it is diffused, whereas in small ponds that I have seen it is produced rapidly.
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