Chapter 247 Natural Gas
“If I am not wrong about the poisonous gas in the valley, it should be hydrogen sulfide, a flammable and highly toxic gas. When the concentration is high enough, the smell is like rotten eggs. What I smelled must be sulfur." Back at the camp, Purficott gathered everyone and explained his discovery to them: "This sulfide is very deadly and dangerous. When it mixes with the air, it will Forming a flammable and explosive mixed explosive, once ignited, the entire valley may be blown up into the sky
And if the human body is exposed to the concentration in the valley, your body will be destroyed within a few minutes. Pulmonary edema then invades the nervous system, causing difficulty in breathing and leading to death.
So no one is allowed to go within five kilometers of the valley without my permission, and no one is allowed to use open fire close to the valley. Some people violate it. If so, I will build him into a stone and make a warning sign here for a hundred years! Do you understand?"
Perfect emphasized with a serious look. Everyone saw that she was so serious, so naturally. They all quickly expressed that they heard clearly.
They all know how the Earl of the North does things. Although she usually looks like a quiet and elegant noble lady, and she also behaves very kind-hearted, the exploration team and the guards all came to the North with her. I have personally witnessed the massacre she caused in New Shake City, and I know that this Earl who can be described as sweet and cute is actually very iron-blooded.
So no one dares not to take her words seriously, and they will really be built into stones.
After warning everyone, Purficott ordered people to start collecting materials, preparing to make a hot air balloon, and then survey the entire valley from the air.
Although it would be very dangerous to approach a valley filled with toxic and dangerous gases from the ground, the spread of these toxic gases is obviously not too wide, and there is no big problem if you approach it from the air for inspection.
After Purficott made this clear, the people in the exploration team naturally took action quickly.
While everyone was collecting materials according to her request, Purficott led a few people and started digging holes in the ground around the camp.
No one quite understood what she was doing, but after digging several pits, and there was gas coming out of the pits, and yellow flames ignited when ignited with fire, Perficott Only when he was satisfied did he let the flames be extinguished.
Obviously, there is not only sulfide in this valley, or the hydrogen sulfide in the valley can only be regarded as a companion substance. The natural gas leaking out of the valley should be the natural gas she initially judged.
The main components of natural gas are alkanes, of which methane accounts for the vast majority, and there are small amounts of ethane, propane and butane. In addition, there are generally hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and water vapor, a small amount of carbon monoxide and trace amounts of rare gases. Such as helium and argon.
For example, in the valley in front of you, the main component of the gas is methane, but mixed with a large amount of hydrogen sulfide, it creates the strong smell of rotten eggs in the valley.
However, when excavating the land around the valley, the leaked gas is colorless and odorless. When ignited, it shows a yellow flame. It can be judged that there should be relatively abundant natural gas underground, and it is not difficult to extract it.
After all, it has been leaked to the surface. It can be seen that the gas field is not buried deep.
As for the previous judgment that this was an oil-associated gas field, it was confirmed after Perficott used her all-seeing eye to analyze the composition of the gas leaked from the underground. She found in the gas evaporated petroleum components.
In fact, Purficott's goal has been achieved at this time. He only needs to build oil wells for oil exploration around here to extract the oil buried underground, but Purficott does not I plan to go back directly.
There are obviously more things worthy of investigation in the valley in front of him. Although there is no problem in letting the exploration team continue to investigate, Purficott has always been worried about leaving such a dangerous job to this group of people who lack relevant knowledge. Cognitive person. After all, compared with her, these people did not have a clear understanding of the poisonous and harmful flammable and explosive gases in the valley, nor could they understand the importance of the natural gas and oil buried under this land. She was worried that these people would not I accidentally lit up the entire valley.
It would be a trivial matter to set the valley on fire, but if the sparks ignite all the natural gas, or even ignite the underground gas and oil fields...
It would be a horror story. , the fires ignited underground by the ignited oil and gas fields will not go out for thousands of years. Even if the future is the end of winter, it will be difficult to suppress this level of ground fires.
At that time, it is impossible to say that the North will still have a warm place in the freezing apocalypse.
It’s just that no one wants to live in this warm land, because the toxic and harmful gases produced by fires in underground oil and gas fields are simply not suitable for human beings to live on it.
Not to mention that those flames will extend upward along the cracks in the ground, and the entire area will become very dangerous.
However, these are just Purficott’s unfounded worries for now. As for whether it will really become like this, it depends on how she will deal with this area in the future, and after letting the hot air balloon take off. investigations carried out.
At least for now, it will not turn into the worst situation that Purficott is worried about.
Currently, the people she brought are obeying her orders very seriously. Even when they light fires for cooking in the camp at night, they pay great attention to fire safety, and no one is willing to violate it. Purficott's command was near Death Valley.
They are all people who care about their lives. When they heard the name Death Valley, they knew it was not a good place. Now that they have received the ban from Perfect Court, they naturally don’t want to get close to the valley.
If there weren't still exploration missions, and if Purficott didn't express his intention to leave, someone would have suggested withdrawing now.
As for igniting underground oil and gas fields, although it is indeed dangerous, to be honest, it is not easy to ignite an oil and gas field, especially underground.
Unless it really ignites the entire valley and causes a chain reaction, it is unlikely.
So Purficott is not very worried about this.
Other than that, Purficott has never cared about the trivial matters in the camp. Although she cannot say that she has many soldiers, at least there are still people who can do the work. If there is nothing If she, the lord, is to care, then why is she raising these people?
So after the people she sent out collected the materials, Purficott began to focus on using alchemy to make hot-air balloons. She planned to make the balloons today, and then take off in the hot-air balloons tomorrow to survey the entire world from the air. Take an all-round look at Death Valley.
(End of this chapter)